RPM/YUM Tips on OS/2-eCS

This are some RPM/YUM general tips that I need to write somewhere to don't forget them.

List the Content on the RPM Server
yum list

or search something more specifically like the "gcc" available

yum list gcc*

Install something
yum install 

Ex:

yum install libc

Ex. with several packaged:

yum install libc gcc-4.4.4 gcc-4.7.3 openssl curl libjpeg libxslt libicu zlib libxml2 mmap pthread urpo libstdc++6

Reinstall Something
yum install 

Ex: yum reinstall coreutils

Update all the stuff you have installed
yum update

Install YUM/RPM
Sometime RPM did not get automatically updated or installed. You can manually install them again with: yum install rpm

Installing the Netlabs Experimental Repository
There is other repository for netlabs experimental stuff. You can use it under your risk.

This repository can be installed do doing a:

yum install netlabs-exp

It can also be set manually by creating a file under:

x:\etc\yum\repos.d\netlabs-exp.repo

with content:

[netlabs-exp] name=Netlabs experimental repository $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://rpm.netlabs.org/experimental/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1

Clean
yum clean all

Check
This command check is the dependencies of the packaged are installed correctly.

yum check

RebuildDB
If your RPM database got corrupted you can use:

rpm --rebuilddb

Error: No such table: packages
If you get this error maybe a "yum clean all" can help a little bit.

Error:
 C:\usr\share\yum-cli]yum raceback (most recent call last): File "C:\TMP\YUMBT\USR\BIN\YUM", line 29, in   yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 288, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 98, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 253, in getOptionsConfig (opts, self.cmds) = self.optparser.setupYumConfig(args=args) File "/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1599, in setupYumConfig self.base.setupKeyImportCallbacks File "/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 1225, in setupKeyImportCal backs gpgca_import_func = self.getCAKeyForRepo ttributeError: 'YumBaseCli' object has no attribute 'getCAKeyForRepo' 

Error: error: unpacking of archive failed on file : cpio: Digest mismatch
 Error unpacking rpm package libjpeg-8c-1.oc00.i386 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /@unixroot/usr/bin/cjpeg.exe;56031939
 * cpio: Digest mismatch

