Yum install of home-made RPM giving error

Question

I am trying to isntall something using "yum install my.rpm"

The problem is I am getting

TypeError: an integer is required
error: python callback <bound method RPMTransaction.callback of <yum.rpmtrans.RPMTransaction instance at 0x013e3f8>> failed, aborting!

What does this mean? I turned on verbosity of the yum install, cant figure anything out. This is RHEL 6.1

Thanks

I can't post the spec file - were you looking for anything in particular in it? — Derek, Jan 25 '12 at 21:45
What happens when you run "rpm -Uvh my.rpm"? Also, what is the output of "rpm -qp --scripts my.rpm" and of "rpm -qip my.rpm"? — gogators, Jan 25 '12 at 22:59
Were you able to resolve this? I am having the same problem today. — Aaron Copley, Mar 23 '12 at 15:11
I solved it (for me.) I was installing the package using `sudo` from a root-squash mounted NFS home directory... I moved it to /tmp and installed it just fine. YMMV — Aaron Copley, Mar 23 '12 at 19:46

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 05 '14 at 11:55

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If rpm is not able to access the file for some reason while installing the package, it throws this error.

For example if your rpm is located on a NFS share witn root_squash directive, and try to install, then since root while attempting to access the file won't be permitted to it will fail, and it throws this excact error.

If this is your case, then putting the rpm in something like /tmp first, and then re-trying will solve it.

answered Jun 05 '14 at 11:55

Petter H

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I had this exact problem and this answer solved it for me. Such an arcane error message... – dbazile Apr 05 '19 at 16:07

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '12 at 20:57

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To install a rpm file with yum, you need to use the localinstall command:

localinstall Is used to install a set of local rpm files. If required the enabled repositories will be used to resolve dependencies. Note that the install command will do a local install, if given a filename.

For example "yum localinstall my.rpm". But I think you also have a problem with your spec file.

answered Jan 25 '12 at 20:57

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it says as your last sentence that the install command does a local install if given a file name – Derek Jan 25 '12 at 21:45
You do not need to say `localinstall`, as yum will figure this out. – Petter H Jun 05 '14 at 11:51

Yum install of home-made RPM giving error

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