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Re: layered athena install on RH 7.1

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun May 6 21:02:02 2001

To: Peter Poulin <prp@mit.edu>
Cc: <linux-dev@mit.edu>
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 06 May 2001 21:01:50 -0400
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Peter Poulin <prp@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I'd like to install the athena packages on top of a Red Hat 7.1
> installation.  I've obtained all the rpm's for the layered-8.4 release,
> but I don't know in what order to install them.  Guessing wrong just
> results in a lot of failed dependencies.  Is there a list available

If you install them all with a single invocation of RPM, that
shouldn't happen.

> somewhere that I could read?  Or should I just use the force option with
> rpm and install them one at a time?  I guess the other thing I need to ask
> is:  is athena-8.4 compatible with RH 7.1?

That combination is not supported.  However, Athena 9.0, currently in
alpha, uses Red Hat 7.1.

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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