where is uudecode in RHEL6 Beta?

fred smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Wed Jul 7 19:57:19 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:44:55PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:35:21PM -0700, fred smith wrote:
> > I've dug thru every RPM in both the Workstation and Server ISO images
> > of RHEL6 beta2 and none of them contains a package containing uudecode.
> > 
> >     cd Packages
> >     for i in *.rpm; do rpm -qlp $i | grep uudecode; done 2>/dev/null
> > 
> > returns one emacs component and 3 man pages, but no binary.
> > 
> > Is there some OTHER tool that is now being shipped in place of uuencode/
> > uudecode? 
> > 
> > Clues appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> Don't have a RHEL6 install handy, but try 'sharutils'.

Nope. there is no such package on either ISO image. that was my
first guess, since that's where it has traditionally been.

> 
> Ray

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