On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:40:53 +0000 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Friday 09 January 2004 22:15, Dick Gevers wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:51:37 +0000, Anne Wilson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> wrote about Re: [newbie] urpmi question: >> >No, it's not. So what the heck was it preparing? Never mind - >> > I'll leave it for tonight, then I'll go back to the gui. At >> > least I can understand the messages there. >> >> You could try copying the file from the CD to a home directory; I >> had one CD in a previous version that always had read problems. >> Moreover you could check the file`s integrity with rpm -K awe* >> >> If it still fails you might have a corrupted rpm database (which I >> experienced several times in MD 9.1), but this can easily be fixed >> by: rpm --rebuilddb >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmi awesfx >Please insert the medium named "Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1)" on >device [/dev/scd0] >Press Enter when ready... >installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm > >Preparing... >################################################## > 1:awesfx >################################################## >[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# >[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# rpm -q awesfx >awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk >[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# > > >So - maybe the database needing updating, or maybe it tried to read >the cdrom before it was fully spun up? Either way, it is installed >from cd now. Thanks for the help, though. > >Anne yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!! -- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++++++++++++++++++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++++++++++++++++++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZ registered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux Machine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 22:39:51 up 1:22, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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