GRASS not working on RHEL Worksation (was Re: [ELGIS] ELGIS 6: all packages now available in testing for 32 and 64 bits)

[Lawrence Houston]

Mathieu:

Updating my earlier post...

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Mathieu Baudier wrote:

> 3. Are you in a position to ask your Red Hat support why the xerces-c
> package is not available?
> 
> My understanding is that RHEL Workstation is a superset of RHEL Desktop, and
> according to Tyler it is working there. So maybe there is something wrong
> with your envt.

Using one of Red Hat's 30 Day Server Demos I went "Exploring" through RHN 
and learned that xerces-c is actually part of Red Hat's Optional 
Repository!!!

> (You enabled EPEL already, didn't you?)

Although the EPEL Repository was enabled, Red Hat's Optional Repository 
was NOT...  Sorry!!!

   NOTE: This requirement is Mentioned on EPEL's Web Page for RHEL6 Users

While using the University's Site License the "Regular" RHN Web Site for 
Individual Accounts does NOT appear to apply, so I tried adding the 
Optional Channel using the rhn-channel command, although I was 
unsuccessful...  Therefore I Resorted to Downloading and Manually 
installing xerces-c using the Red Hat's 30 Day Demo, after which GRASS 
6.4.1 Installed and Ran just beautifully under RHEL 6.1 Workstation!!!

If I had been able to add Red Hat's Optional Channel while using the Site 
License Satellite then there should NOT have been any "Problem"...

Lawrence Houston  --  (elgis at greenfield.dyndns.org)