Hi TIm,
Thanks for your input. I have performed two steps to upgrade successfully on
NW Linux Client since yesterday. 1) yum install openmotif. 2) push
(upgrade) NW client through NWC Software Administration Wizard.
regards,
long
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu> wrote:
> In regard to: [Networker] How to upgrade (push) NW client with software...:
>
> 10/06/09 14:04:24:nw_client_install: Install networker packages lgtoman
>> /usr lgtoclnt /usr ...
>> 10/06/09 14:04:24:Adding package "lgtoman" at location "/usr"...
>> 10/06/09 14:04:25:Package "lgtoman" added at location "/usr"...
>> 10/06/09 14:04:25:Adding package "lgtoclnt" at location "/usr"...
>> 10/06/09 14:04:26:nw_client_install: command "/bin/rpm -i /tmp/
>> cp_prmgls01.its.calpoly.edu/ lgtoclnt" failed with: \n error: Failed
>> dependencies:
>> openmotif is needed by lgtoclnt-7.4.5-1.i686
>> Suggested resolutions:
>> /var/spool/up2dateopenmotif-2.2.3-10.2.el4.i386.rpm
>> 10/06/09 14:04:26:nw_client_install, function add_package failed for
>> package
>> "lgtoclnt" at location "/usr"...
>> 10/06/09 14:04:26:nw_client_install: Function add_packages failed.
>>
>> SHOULD I try to put the openmotif in /var/spool?
>>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "put the openmotif in /var/spool". Just
> putting the package in /var/spool/up2date won't do any good, you actually
> need to get it installed somehow. There may already be a version of
> the openmotif package in that directory, though it might not be the most
> recent version of the package.
>
> The nw_client_install utility is just running
>
> rpm -i /path/to/rpm/lgtoclnt
>
> which will fail because rpm doesn't do dependency searching (so it
> doesn't automatically search other sources for the missing dependency).
> If there are any missing dependencies for the package you're trying to
> install, it just fails unless you do things I wouldn't recommend (like
> using --nodeps).
>
> The up2date command *will* do dependency searching, and that's what's
> being hinted at by the "Suggested resolutions" line.
>
> Your best bet is to use
>
> up2date --install openmotif
>
> on the client(s) first, and then try push your networker client install.
> Alternately, if you are licensed for the necessary capabilities in Red Hat
> NetWork (or your Satellite server, if you have one) you could push the
> openmotif package (and its dependencies) to the clients using that
> interface.
>
> Note that if nw_client_install is only calling rpm -i to install the
> lgtoclnt RPM and is not also then calling
>
> up2date -p
>
> afterward, your client definition in either Red Hat NetWork or your
> Satellite or Spacewalk server will be out of sync with what's actually
> installed on the box.
>
> Tim
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