11-01-2010
It appears you are installing RHEL5 packages to a RHEL4 system. This is not a good idea. You need to either upgrade from version 4 to version 5 or preferrably do a fresh install. If you still want to upgrade first bring your RHEL4 system up-to-date to the latest RHEL4 version from the RHN or an installation DVD.
See
upgrading your system
Good luck!
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O dear, only now I noticed you are on RHEL3 . In that case I think the only serious option is to do fresh install...
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repotrack
repotrack(1) repotrack(1)
NAME
repotrack - track a package and its dependencies and download them
SYNOPSIS
repotrack [options] package1 [package2...]
DESCRIPTION
repotrack is a program for keeping track of a particular package and its dependencies. It will download one or more packages and all depen-
dencies.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display a help message, and then quit.
-c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG
Config file to use (defaults to /etc/yum.conf).
-a ARCH, --arch=ARCH
Act as if running the specified arch (default: current arch).
-r REPOID, --repoid=REPOID
Specify repo ids to query, can be specified multiple times (default is all enabled).
-t, --tempcache
Use a temp dir for storing/accessing yum-cache.
-p DESTDIR, --download_path=DESTDIR
Path to download packages to.
-u, --urls
Instead of downloading RPMs, list the URLs that would be downloaded.
-n, --newest
Toggle downloading only the newest packages (defaults to newest-only).
-q, --quiet
Output as little information as possible.
SEE ALSO
yum.conf (5)
http://yum.baseurl.org/
AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program.
13 January 2013 repotrack(1)