[ale] How do people deal with RHEL?

[Jim Kinney]

Why would you even _TRY_ to add ANYTHING to a RHEL4 setup?!? The only thing
you should be doing is working like mad to port everything to RHEL6 ASAP!

There were/are many small things that are not included in an official RHEL
release. You can always get the source and compile it yourself and put it in
/usr/local or you can find the src.rpm and build the package and do a
package install.

Either way, don't plan on using that RHEL4 system for much longer. Times
change. So does your base OS.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:51 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> I mean really, this stupid distribution doesn't even include useful tools:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> $ sudo up2date ntop
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...
> ########################################
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> Name                                    Version              Rel
>        Arch
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> The following packages you requested were not found:
> ntop
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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