It was Oct 1, 2000, 01:45, when fireman71 keyboarded: >When using "rpm -Uvv rpm-name-here.rpm" to update any RPM i get the followingerror >message: > >error getting record /bin/sh from //var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm It would be a good time for you to rebuild the rpm database. Run rpm --rebuilddb I hope that helps Paul -- Yesterday it worked. Today nothing is working. Windows is like that. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-