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Re: installing bind-newbie questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Tue Oct 27 14:27:17 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:34:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Carney Mimms wrote:
> I'm trying to set up my newly-installed RedHat 5.1 box as a DNS server
> and am trying to use rpm to install from the RedHat CDROM.
>
> First of all, the RPMS directory lists two bind packages (actually three,
> if you include the utilities package), bind 4.9.7-1.i386.rpm, and
> ypbind-3.3.7.i386.rpm. When I try to install the bind package, I get a
> "can't install this package" message. When I look at available packages
> through the GLINT utility, I see only the ypbind package.
>
> Assuming these are the right packages, should I just go ahead and install
> the ypbind package through GLINT? If not, are there later versions?
>
> The name service HOW-TO refers to BIND-4.9.3, so I would have thought
> that bind 4.9.7-1 is what I needed.
>
It is exactly what you need. The "can't install this package"
message is likely occuring because it's already installed.
Cheers!
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