Hi JC,
This may be off-topic for everyone else as I'm talking about an unofficial
RPM (I know), but just to get this into the mailing list archive...
I want to install xymon server on a system, but it will be forwarding its
results to another xymon server and therefore I have no need for web pages,
RRD files, etc. In fact, I think I only need xymond, xymonnet and an add-on
monitor. (Plus xymon-client.) When I try and install your RPM, it wants to
install all sorts of things I don't want like apache and libX11 (see below).
Installing:
xymon Installing for dependencies:
apr apr-util apr-util-ldap audit-libs-python cairo dejavu-fonts-common dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts fontconfig fontpackages-filesystem fping freetype httpd httpd-tools libX11 libX11-common libXau libXft libXrender libcgroup libselinux-python libsemanage-python libthai libxcb mailcap net-snmp-libs pango pixman policycoreutils-python rrdtool setools-libs setools-libs-python Transaction Summary
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Install 33 Package(s)
How should I do a minimal install? (I have your repo mirrored, but you
can't exclude dependencies with yum AFAIK.) I just did a:
# sudo rpm -i fping-3.10-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
<no errors>
# sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
<output below>
warning: user apache does not exist - using root
warning: group apache does not exist - using root
warning: user apache does not exist - using root
warning: group apache does not exist - using root
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 30: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 31: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 32: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 33: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 34: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 35: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 36: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
Realizing that I probably needed /usr/sbin/semanage at least, I did:
# sudo rpm -e xymon
warning: /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg saved as /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg.rpmsave
# sudo rm -fR /etc/xymon
# sudo yum install setools-libs-python
# sudo yum install policycoreutils-python
And what the heck, it's just one package that I may use and xymon wants it
directly, rather than a dependency of a dependency, so:
# sudo yum install net-snmp-libs
# sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
warning: user apache does not exist - using root
warning: group apache does not exist - using root
warning: user apache does not exist - using root
warning: group apache does not exist - using root
Should I have any problems that you foresee?
Thanks and kind regards,
SebA