I've had exactly the same problems (LM 8.0 GPL distro from Cheap Bytes),
except I can't even do a successful direct 'rpm' from the console unless
I've just rebuilt the database. What I ended up doing last night is use
the disks to do an 'update' installation, selecting, at the 'individual
package' level, a few things that hadn't been installed on my initial
complete installation. Seemed to work fine.
Terry Smith (the other Terry:-)
Woods Hole, MA
Terry wrote:
>
> Thanks for the help Mike, but that didn't help me either. Sure wish I knew
> what the problem was. Would really hate to reinstall LM yet again on this
> machine to fix it.
>
> Terry
>
> On Tuesday 22 May 2001 18:56, you wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 May 2001 09:07, you wrote:
> > I had the same problem with Software Manager telling me things were already
> > installed and I tried the rpm --rebuilddb with no luck then I tried rpm
> > --rebuilddb then ran updatedb right after and went back to Software Manager
> > and it worked again. Dont know why but it worked for me try it and see if
> > it helps. I ran them in console not from KDE or Gnome. Good luck.
> >
> > > Thanks for the answers, but I have tried those, and they still don't have
> > > any effect on Software Manager. Things work just fine at the command
> > > line, just not in Software Manager. If I try to use
> > >
> > > rpm -e <packagename>
> > >
> > > from the command line, it just tells me that the package is not installed
> > > on this system. Software Manager is being very peculiar. Anyone else
> > > come across this sort of problem?
> > >
> > > Terry
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 22 May 2001 16:38, you wrote:
> > > > first use
> > > >
> > > > rpm --rebuilddb
> > > >
> > > > then if you still have a report that packages are installed, try
> > > >
> > > > rpm -e <packagename> for each one
> > > >
> > > > and then use the software manager.
> > > >
> > > > Civileme
