An easy eay to fix this problem is to install apt-get for rpm. Details can be found at www.freshrpms.net.
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, ~Kevin Davis� wrote: KD} This was the case, basically. A lot of inconsistency between install KD} methods. I did some more checking today and found that the text based KD} install was significantly different and more detailed (in what packages KD} could be selected) than the GUI install. The text based install provided a KD} selection for sharutils. The GUI install does not. It appears if you KD} initially install from the GUI install and don't select the "everything" KD} option, you won't get uudecode. Post install, even if when I individually KD} selected everything from the "Packages" GUI I didn't get uudecode. It would KD} appear that the only option would be to manually find the sharutils package KD} on the CD and install it from the CLI (since RH 8.0 does not contain any GUI KD} front end for RPM management like GnoRPM). If I select "everything" in the KD} GUI (initially) I did get uudecode even though it is not listed as a part of KD} any package. KD} KD} ~Kevin Davis� KD} KD} What could possibly go wrong? KD} ----- Original Message ----- KD} From: "Doug Nordwall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KD} To: "~Kevin Davis�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KD} Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KD} Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:38 AM KD} Subject: Re: RedHat 8.0 KD} KD} KD} This is fairly common on redhat. Checking "everything" actually doesn't KD} mean everything. I've seen in it several versions (I run a mirror, I KD} deploy redhat boxes) KD} KD} On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 04:19 AM, ~Kevin Davis� wrote: KD} KD} > Hmmm... KD} > KD} > I installed *all* packages and still didn't have uudecode on my system. KD} > KD} > ~Kevin Davis� KD} > KD} > What could possibly go wrong? KD} > ----- Original Message ----- KD} > From: "Renaud Deraison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KD} > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KD} > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 4:28 AM KD} > Subject: Re: RedHat 8.0 KD} > KD} > KD} > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:45:04PM -0400, ~Kevin Davis� wrote: KD} >> Just a note - I was not able to use the Nessus install script (1.2.5) KD} >> in KD} >> RedHat 8.0. It appears that uudecode was not included in the distro. KD} >> I'm KD} > KD} > Install the package called "sharutils". I don't understand why they did KD} > not include it by default though... KD} > KD} > KD} > -- Renaud KD} > - KD} > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. KD} > * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with KD} > "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. KD} > KD} > - KD} > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. KD} > * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with KD} > "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. KD} KD} - KD} [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. KD} * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with KD} "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. KD} KD} - KD} [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. KD} * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with KD} "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. KD} -- Douglas J Nordwall http://rex.nmhu.edu/~musashi System Administrator Pacific Northwest National Labs - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
