Richard F. Hobson wrote: > Thanks to both of you. > > I first ran "rpm -ivh" from the shell and it got as far as GUI- went > through the prep stage and then aborted with no error or other > messages. I downloaded Red-Carpet and installed (went smoothly). > Red Carpet ran the install and reported that timidity was already > installed. From a tour through diretories it looks like it IS > installed, but shows up on no menu. I ran "timidity" from the shell > and got a normal looking welcome message(s) from timidity and then it > shut down. So how do I run timidity under X? > > Rich. > > > > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:17, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: >> On Monday 21 July 2003 11:39, Mark Haney wrote this in an attempt to >> be witty and informative: >> <snip> >>> I've seen this a couple of times, and both times it's been a >>> dependency issue. I.e. there's a package dependency that is causing >>> the install to fail. With the GUI package manager, it doesn't seem >>> to tell you this. If you run rpm -ivh <package name> it should tell >>> you the dependency that's failed. If that's not it, then I'm at a >>> loss. >> >> He should go get Red-Carpet. It will tell you about (and in most >> cases resolve) dependency issues. >> >> -- >> Wielder of the mighty +1 LARTsaber of Unsubscribe Instructions At >> End of Message, the +3 Clue-by-Four of No Attachments to a Mailing >> List, and the -4 Shield of No Spell Checker >> http://joseph-a-nagy-jr.homelinux.org http://mc-luug.homelinux.org/
Run rpm -q timidity to see if it really is there. And I think rpm -v will verify the package to see if it's not corrupt. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
