Installing AVG (or not)

[cctster]

Hi,

Linux Newbie here so please go easy. I've been trying to install AVG on a Linux box for several days now with no success and so I am turning to you guys on the Forum for a little help. I have ended up with a clean install of Fedora Core 3. I have been following the advice of jsdewey in the How-to-Articles and have got to the point where you place

yum localinstall avg7lflr-r28-a0757.i386.rpm

into the terminal. the error message I get is:

Setting up Local Package Process
Cannot open file: avg7lflr-r28-a0757.i386.rpm. Skipping.
Nothing to do

How can I found out what is going wrong here?

Regards,

Neil

[bob]

There was a 'how-to' just posted on AVG: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=120029 I have run Avast and (mostly) Clam-AV, so I'm afraid I can't directly help you. By the way, if there's any chance of upgrading to at least FC-5, it would be a good idea. FC1 and 2 are now removed from even the Legacy status and FC3 will be removed within 5-6 months, so if you are looking for updates or support, it would be good to plan to switch.

[cctster]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the tip. I have installed FC5. I followed the instructions and here is what happened after the yum instruction for the downloaded AVG rpm:

yum localinstall avg71flr-r28-a0757.i386.rpm
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Local Package Process
Examining avg71flr-r28-a0757.i386.rpm: avg71flr - r28-a0757.i386
Marking avg71flr-r28-a0757.i386.rpm to be installed
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras [2/3]
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates [3/3]
updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 767 kB 00:13
core : ################################################## 2207/2207
Added 2207 new packages, deleted 0 old in 147.70 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.3 MB 00:25
extras : ################################################## 4572/4572
Added 4572 new packages, deleted 0 old in 304.99 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 350 kB 00:08
updates : ################################################## 999/999
Added 999 new packages, deleted 0 old in 84.66 seconds
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package avg71flr.i386 0:r28-a0757 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ===========================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ===========================
Installing:
avg71flr i386 r28-a0757 avg71flr-r28-a0757.i386.rpm 16 M

Transaction Summary
================================================== ===========================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 16 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:


Package avg71flr-r28-a0757.i386.rpm is not signed
[root@localhost richard]#

What do I do to sort out this signing problem?

Regards,

Neil

[bob]

Well, you can do two things - either go to the site and get the signature file or simply download the rpm from one of the fedora mirrors and then install it with 'rpm' instead:

1). download it to your /home/username and then make sure that there are no other .rpm files hanging around.

2). as root (su -) 'cd /home/username'

3). 'rpm -ivh *.rpm' (the * means 'any' rpm) .... If you've got other .rpm's and don't want to move or delete them, you'd have to use the full file name for it.

This signing problem should have been handled prior to the program being put into Fedora, so you might want to report the fact for the next guy.