Tork Wrench » rpm http://www.torkwrench.com Things I learnt today, working on IBM Lotus Web Content Management. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:33:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to add additional packages to a Fedora repo http://www.torkwrench.com/2010/04/21/how-to-add-additional-packages-to-a-fedora-repo/ http://www.torkwrench.com/2010/04/21/how-to-add-additional-packages-to-a-fedora-repo/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:28:56 +0000 Graham http://www.torkwrench.com/?p=212 Continue reading →]]> It’s time to give Fedora 12 a whirl on our servers. In the lab we are massive users of anaconda’s kickstart system for doing unattended installs. This means that everything has to be perfect, otherwise the install will hang. For instance, if a package that you have defined in the kickstart isn’t there, anaconda (the name for Fedora’s installer) will hang.

I’ve noticed that Fedora has dropped the compat-libstdc++-296 and compat-libstdc++-33, which we require for DB2. The compat packages are in still the ‘Everything’ directory in the Fedora 12 mirror sites, so we can download them and add them to our repository. This approach would work with any RHEL/CentOS/Fedora type distro.

1. Extract the CD/DVD to a folder.
2. Copy the packages you would like to add to the Packages subdirectory
3. Cd to the top level directory of the extracted files (you should see directories like Packages, repodata, images as subdirectories )
4. Run this command :

createrepo --update -g repodata/comps.xml .

This will update the package metadata in the repodata directory to include the new packages that you have added.
5. Add your new packages to the %packages section of the kickstart file – anaconda will now find the packages. For example, this is what mine says:

%packages --nobase
@core
vim-enhanced
-exim
-samba-winbind
-cairo
-krb5-libs
-fedora-release-notes
-python
-python-libs
-gtk2
-selinux-policy-targeted
-selinux-policy
-policycoreutils
-system-config-samba
-wireless-tools
-openldap
-libthai
-cups-libs
-efibootmgr
-hicolor-icon-theme
-fedora-logos
-system-config-network-tui
-system-config-firewall-tui
-perl-Module-Pluggable
-perl-Convert-ASN1
-perl
-popt
-libtiff
-libselinux
-libselinux-devel
-linux-atm-libs
-cyrus-sasl-lib
-ed
-newt-python
-mdadm
-python-numeric
-kudzu
-gamin
-parted
-wireless-tools
@smb-server
libaio
wget
yum
rpm-build
createrepo
sudo
ntp
openssh-server
openssh-clients
dhclient
kernel-headers
gcc
gcc-c++
mlocate
anacron
vixie-cron
crontabs
make
curl
unzip
svn
compat-libstdc++-296
compat-libstdc++-33

%post

This package selection is really minimal and enables us to build a Fedora machine from nothing in about 5 minutes!

]]> http://www.torkwrench.com/2010/04/21/how-to-add-additional-packages-to-a-fedora-repo/feed/ 0 java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/java/jre/bin/libawt.so: libXmu.so.6 http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/04/01/javalangunsatisfiedlinkerror/ http://www.torkwrench.com/2009/04/01/javalangunsatisfiedlinkerror/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:39:25 +0000 Graham http://www.torkwrench.com/?p=28 Continue reading →]]> Excuse me for titling a post with an exception! Now that I have your attention…..

I’m doing a bit of work on Portal 6.0.  for a customer, and have installed my test environment on Redhat Enterprise 5.3 . I don’t often use a GUI for these machines and sometimes run into problems. On this one I ran the configure-wcm-authoring WPSConfig.sh task but navigated to the WCM Authoring Portlet and found a blank page. The portlet was on the page, but it wasn’t being rendered. A quick look through the SystemErr.log show the culprit:

[4/1/09 16:10:39:329 EST] 00000084 SystemErr     R java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/java/jre/bin/libawt.so: libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:2144)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:2004)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:824)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:910)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:76)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged1(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java(Compiled Code))
at sun.awt.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraries(NativeLibLoader.java:81)
at java.awt.Color.<clinit>(Color.java:280)
at com.ibm.psw.uil.nls.UilCommonResources.<clinit>(UilCommonResources.java:246)
at com.ibm.psw.uil.util.UilStatusInfoHelper$ESIData.<init>(UilStatusInfoHelper.java:1153)
at com.ibm.psw.uil.util.UilStatusInfoHelper.<clinit>(UilStatusInfoHelper.java:997)
at com.ibm.psw.wcl.components.table.WTable.createDefaultClassComparators(WTable.java:1007)
at com.ibm.psw.wcl.components.table.WTable.<init>(WTable.java:733)
at com.ibm.psw.wcl.components.table.WTable.<init>(WTable.java:707)
at com.ibm.psw.wcl.components.table.WTable.<init>(WTable.java:664)
at com.ibm.workplace.wcm.app.ui.portlet.widget.WBasicTable.<init>(WBasicTable.java:80)
at com.ibm.workplace.wcm.app.ui.portlet.widget.WRepositoryBrowserTable.<init>(WRepositoryBrowserTable.java:131)
at com.ibm.workplace.wcm.app.ui.portlet.widget.WRepositoryBrowser.createTable(WRepositoryBrowser.java:304)
at com.ibm.workplace.wcm.app.ui.portlet.widget.WRepositoryBrowser.initialise(WRepositoryBrowser.java:210)
at com.ibm.workplace.wcm.app.ui.portlet.widget.WRepositoryBrowser.<init>(WRepositoryBrowser.java:127)
at com.ibm.workplace.wcm.app.ui.portlet.core.view.MainRepositoryFormView.getRepositoryBrowser(MainRepositoryFormView.java:383)
at com.ibm.workplace.wcm.app.ui.portlet.core.view.MainRepositoryFormView.getRepositoryBrowserTable(MainRepositoryFormView.java:435)
at com.ibm.workplace.wcm.app.ui.portlet.basic.PageManager.getRepositoryTable(PageManager.java:468)

WRepositoryBrowser is the class that renders the main view of the authoring portlet. Looks like it requires some extra packages to work if you haven’t installed xorg with your Redhat Server. A quick search of pbone.net reveals I need two additional packages: libXmu-1.0.2-5.i386.rpm and libXtst-1.0.1-3.1.i386.rpm .  I always install compat-libstdc++-296, compat-libstdc++-33 and libXp on Redhat 5 machines as well. (I think if you don’t have  libXp you get a pretty similar error). I hadn’t seen this specific one before, I think it’s because I used the ‘skipx’ directive in the kickstart file for the machine. Long story short, install those packages on your headless redhat machine.

I think this problem isn’t limited to Portal either. When I was trying to install IBM Http Server on the same machine, I kept getting the same error when the Install Shield installer would load (in -console mode, no less), so I guess it would be good to install these packages whenever you’re going to use Java Apps and use the skipx parameter.

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