oops... On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:06 AM, j d <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Nils for your persistence and help. > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote: >> j d wrote: >> >>> by the way my epel.repo file looks like: >>> -------------------- >>> [epel] >>> name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch >>> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch >>> >>> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch >>> failovermethod=priority >>> enabled=1 >>> gpgcheck=1 >>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL >>> >>> [epel-debuginfo] >>> name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Debug >>> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch/debug >>> >>> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-debug-5&arch=$basearch >>> failovermethod=priority >>> enabled=1 >>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL >>> gpgcheck=1 >>> >>> [epel-source] >>> name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source >>> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/SRPMS >>> >>> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-source-5&arch=$basearch >>> failovermethod=priority >>> enabled=1 >>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL >>> gpgcheck=1 >>> ------------------------ >> >> Yeah, fine. I'd just disable [epel-debuginfo] and [epel-source] again, >> because you don't need those. But that shouldn't change anything for you >> right now. >> >>> (...) >>>> >>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libicu-devel is needed by package couchdb >>>> ] >>>> >>>> thoughts? >> >> Your yum setup looks a little broken, possibly because your RHN >> subscription seems to be expired or something. Which also might explain >> why you're still on RHEL 5.1 while 5.4 is the current version. >> >
Yeah, I inherited this server and I'm sure whatever support and updating services they paid for are now over. I didn't think I needed the RHN, I figured that was only a rpm repo run by Red Hat and that I just needed to point yum to a free place (like EPEL). I guess at this point my only choices are to either update RHEL (hope you can do this for free if you don't buy support) or to take another 3 days to wipe the machine and reinstall with another Linux variant. > >> Nils Breunese. >> >> P.S. I just updated http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_RHEL5 >> with separate sections for installing a prepackaged CouchDB and >> installing from source. >> Thanks again Nils.
