Re: Is Firefox included in a default install RHEL 4 U3

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

kevin j lisciotti jpmchase com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I posted about this a month ago, and maybe my DVD burner is acting 
> flaky, but I just burned a new set of the U3 isos after verifying 
> checksums etc and did a default install on another box. Once again, 
> Firefox failed to be installed?
>
> Is it supposed to be installed by default and if so, why are my cd 
> burns not producing correct installs? I'm really stumped as to why 
> this is happening, I have burned cds at slower speeds with same 
> results. Also, on my last install the logrotate seems to be broken. 
> When it does it's weekly rotate it fails to restart the syslog daemon 
> and continues writing to the rotated log. Are these known problems or 
> are my cd burns just bad???

Kevin,
I'm not familiar with the default groups selected by Anaconda during an 
interactive install; however, you could look at /root/anaconda-ks.cfg to 
determine this.  Then you would just need to track down which group 
contains Firefox.  The fastest way to determine this is by opening 
RedHat/base/comps.xml and searching for firefox.  Then look for the 
group name.  If that group is not listed in anaconda-ks.cfg and it's not 
contained in one of those groups mentioned, therein lies your problem.

Look for group id's, names and firefox:
>egrep '<id>|<name>|firefox' 
/export/linux/ftp/pub/linux/redhat/linux/enterprise/4_U3/en/os/i386/RedHat/base/comps.xml 
| grep -B2 firefox
   <id>graphical-internet</id>
   <name>Graphical Internet</name>
     <packagereq type="default">firefox</packagereq>

Determine which group includes graphical-internet:
>egrep '<id>|<name>|<groupreq>graphical-internet' 
/export/linux/ftp/pub/linux/redhat/linux/enterprise/4_U3/en/os/i386/RedHat/base/comps.xml 
| grep -B2 '<groupreq>graphical-internet'
   <id>workstation-common</id>
   <name>Workstation Common</name>
     <groupreq>graphical-internet</groupreq>

If /root/anaconda-ks.cfg does not contain "@ Workstation Common" in the 
%packages section, this is why firefox is not installed.

If you would like a graphical tool to help in this discovery, I've used 
rpm-analyzer: http://www.maisondubonheur.com/rpm-analyzer/.  You just 
point it to the files in RedHat/base (comps.xml, hdlist, etc.) and it 
helps you browse the groups, etc.

I would recommend that if you're doing multiple installs, you should set 
up a kickstart environment and pre-select the groups and individual 
packages you need.

/Brian/