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[Ronal B Morse]

Jean-David:  Does Red Hat have a virtual machine manager available for 
RHEL 6? I had a similar problem some years ago when I was tied to Debian 
Stable. My solution was to create a virtual machine running Debian 
Testing which supported newer versions of the applications I wanted to 
use.  Took care of dependencies without disturbing the integrity of the 
host machine.

RBM


On 02/24/2018 09:48 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> True, the version in EPEL7 is 2.6.18, one version back, soon to be two versions back.
>
> I too was wondering the issue, now I see that essentially, nothing ever gets back-ported for RHEL, so newer RPMs can’t pull in dependencies because they don’t exist in the older repositories. They can provide 10 years of support, because it’s essentially frozen.
>
> Your experience and explanation makes me glad I never tried RHEL.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>> On Feb 24, 2018, at 7:45 AM, Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/23/2018 06:40 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>>> I am lost in this thread.  I thought that the point of Linux was to use
>>> RPMs to do the dirty work of installing the software.  In fedora that would
>>> be "yum install gnucash".  Are you saying that does not work?
>>>
>>> David C
>>>
>> Yes, it would not work because the server that would respond to yum is
>> the one Red Hat maintains to support (in my case) RHEL6. Were I running
>> RHEL7, it would get things from that. But in either case, Red Hat do not
>> support Gnucash (and do not support VLC), so I would need to download
>> the rpms from elsewhere. And it is not that easy because the rpm's will
>> not install unless all the dependencies are already there. And to get
>> them is almost impossible for most things.
>>
>> When I downloaded VLC, for example, I needed a few libraries. I found
>> and downloaded some of those. They wanted more. Some of them needed
>> other libraries and they did not exist. So I had to get rid of some and
>> get other versions of those, and so on. It took over a week to get VLC
>> to work. And I was trying to install VLC because some other video player
>> (and mp3 player) stopped working.
>>
>> The only way I got GnuCash to work is that it is not quite as
>> complicated as VLC, and the EPEL project has Gnucash in it. They do not
>> upgrade it though. They have a version that works, and that is that. The
>> EPEL for Gnucash in RHEL7 will not install in RHEL6, and I am not
>> prepared to upgrade my RHEL6 system just to get the latest Gnucash.
>> (Even were I to do that, there is no reason to believe that that version
>> of Gnucash would be the latest, though I suspect it would be more up to
>> date than what I now have.)
>>
>>
>>
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