Re: [expert] RPM simply doesn't work

[Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]]

On Saturday 23 December 2000 00:07, Simon Cousins wrote:
> > I have reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 on my system (formated the partition and
> > installed over it), but now I can't seem to install anything with rpm. 
> > All rpm packages I try to install cause my system to start working
> > intensively, the disk(s) work like they never have before and I can't do
> > anything, not even kill the rpm process.  I left my computer one time
> > when installing an rpm (to see if it would "finish"), when I got back 7
> > hours later the system was still working.  The only solution seems to
> > reboot the system by pressing the reset switch.
>
> I've seen this behaviour on three different 7.2 boxes that I've set up
> recently.
>
> After updating grpmi (and MandrakeUpdate) to latest versions, the bug has
> completely disappeared.

So how do I update grpmi and MandrakeUpdate without having rpm ?  hehe :)

Can't seem to find tar.gz files anywhere...

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