How To Linux

Rightscale created a great script to build an AMI from scratch – see http://blog.rightscale.com/2007/09/26/rightimages-changelog/

I got this error when trying to build the image from YUM.

AttributeError: CHECKSUM_VALUE rightscale

This worked for me;

rpm -qa | grep yum-metadata-parser
rpm -ev –nodeps yum-metadata-parser-VERSIONFROMABOVECMD

cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux…8.fc6.i386.rpm
rpm -iv ./yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6.i386.rpm 
yum check-update

See - http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/122580-solved-yum-update-fails-attributeerror-checksum_value.html

These are great tools to get started on Amazon’s EC2 and S3 products.

Elasticfox - http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609

S3fox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/policy/0/3247/41288

Anyone know of any better/alternative tools, let me know.