No offense taken. I don't work in the GUI. I am usually accessing the box
through SSH or something similar.
Since I can't log in as root through the term or ssh, I su to root :)
Kat
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fran
Parker
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM TRouble...please help!
May be a silly question, but are you logged in as su or root when you
try to install the rpm?
In the gui, it tells you you have to be root (although logging in as su in
the terminal window works just as well from KDE).
I hope I didn't offend by asking.
Bambi
James McLaughlin wrote:
> I have a system running Mandrake 7.0. Whenever I run rpm -Uvh foo.rpm (or
> ivh)it runs through the
> ##############################
>
> and brings me back to a prompt. Then I querry the rpm that I just
> installed..and it says "package not installed"
> The current RPM I am trying to work with is the gcc.rpm that came on Disk2
> of my distro. Does anyone know what would cause mandrake to run through
the
> motions...but not really install the package. Is there a command that
will
> tell the rpm database to refresh itself and in turn Mandrake will
recognize
> that the compiler is installed. If not...I really don't want to go
through
> all of the ^&*( to download the tarball and compile the compiler
> myself...ugghh..what a pain :(
>
> A friend of mine throught it was something to do with my bash file within
> root...
>
> Please help...I cant get any SQL or HTDIG working without a gcc g++
compiler
> installed :(
>
> THanks
>
> Kat
