Martin, thank you so much. This was indeed a problem. I enabled the
repository, then did
sudo yum install dkms
However, it seems there is a problem with something about the dkms package.
Here's the response:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: mirror.hmc.edu
* epel-debuginfo: mirror.hmc.edu
* base: www.cyberuse.com
* updates: centos.g5selfstorage.com
* epel-source: mirror.hmc.edu
* addons: mirror.stanford.edu
* extras: www.cyberuse.com
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You mightconsider running
yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package dkms.noarch 0:2.0.19.1-1.el4 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
==================================================================================================================================
Package Arch
Version Repository Size
==================================================================================================================================
Installing:
dkms noarch
2.0.19.1-1.el4 epel 90 k
Transaction Summary
==================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total size: 90 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 181, in main
return_code = base.doTransaction()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 398, in doTransaction
if self.gpgsigcheck(downloadpkgs) != 0:
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 498, in gpgsigcheck
self.getKeyForPackage(po, lambda x, y, z: self.userconfirm())
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 2916, in
getKeyForPackage
keys = self._retrievePublicKey(keyurl)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 2881, in
_retrievePublicKey
keys_info = misc.getgpgkeyinfo(rawkey, multiple=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 282, in
getgpgkeyinfo
raise ValueError('No key found in given key data')
ValueError: No key found in given key data
Now I'm completely lost. Is this a failure with the package ?
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Martin Flemming <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
> hmm, misterious ...
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/repoview/dkms.html
>
> Did you enabled the epel-repository with
>
> /epel.repo
>
> enabled=0
>>>
>>
> in enabled=1
>
> or
>
> yum --enablerepo=epel install
>
>
> martin
>
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, David Bear wrote:
>
> Thanks for this. I have added epel.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/
>>
>> sudo yum install dkms
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>> * base: www.cyberuse.com
>> * updates: centos.g5selfstorage.com
>> * addons: mirror.stanford.edu
>> * extras: www.cyberuse.com
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Parsing package install arguments
>> No package dkms available.
>> Nothing to do
>>
>>
>>
>> Still doing sudo yum install dkms gives me
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Martin Flemming <[email protected]
>> >wrote:
>>
>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>>>
>>> for RHEL4 e.g.
>>>
>>> ./Linux_RHEL4/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
>>>
>>> [epel]
>>> name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4 - $basearch
>>> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/$basearch
>>> mirrorlist=
>>> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-4&arch=$basearch
>>> failovermethod=priority
>>> enabled=0
>>> gpgcheck=1
>>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
>>>
>>> [epel-debuginfo]
>>> name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4 - $basearch - Debug
>>> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/$basearch/debug
>>> mirrorlist=
>>>
>>> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-debug-4&arch=$basearch
>>> failovermethod=priority
>>> enabled=0
>>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
>>> gpgcheck=1
>>>
>>> [epel-source]
>>> name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4 - $basearch - Source
>>> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/SRPMS
>>> mirrorlist=
>>>
>>> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-source-4&arch=$basearch
>>> failovermethod=priority
>>> enabled=0
>>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
>>> gpgcheck=1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, David Bear wrote:
>>>
>>> okay. How do I add it to my set of repositories for yum to look in?
>>> Whats
>>>
>>>> the url?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Simon Wilkinson <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1 Jul 2009, at 22:47, Derrick Brashear wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> dkms dependency might be missing; did you try yum install dkms first?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yum didn't find it during the install of dkms-openafs, which means it
>>>>> isn't
>>>>> in yum's list of configured repositories.
>>>>>
>>>>> dkms isn't an official part of RHEL. It is available from EPEL, or as
>>>>> part
>>>>> of Scientific Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> S.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David Bear
>>>> College of Public Programs at ASU
>>>> 602-464-0424
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bear
>> College of Public Programs at ASU
>> 602-464-0424
>>
>>
> Gruss
>
> Martin Flemming
>
>
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