Re: [newbie] Installing RPM's

[Randy Kramer]

Michael,

I'm curious -- what email client do you use?  It appears that you are
able to somehow automatically incorporate some boilerplate text in your
replies (First, please try ... difficult to read.) -- I'm curious how
you do that?

Thanks,
Randy Kramer

Michael D. Viron wrote:
 
 First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some
 e-mail clients add all kinds of extra html tags, reduce the size of
 the font such that it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish
 color, making it much more difficult to read.
 
 Finally to install rpms and be able to see what is happening do an rpm
 -ivh whatever.i586.rpm -- if it has .src.rpm instead, you'll have to
 do an rpm --rebuild whatever.src.rpm, then install the resulting rpms.
 Do a man rpm for further options.
 
 Michael
 
 --
 Michael Viron
 Senior Systems  Administration Consultant
 Web Spinners, University of West Florida
 
 At 10:02 PM 05/31/2001 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  how do i do it? I tried rpm -i something.rpm but that
  doesn't seem to do it
  so could someone please help me? should the rpm be in a
  certain folder
  first?

[newbie] Installing RPM's

[CBoy168]

how do i do it? I tried rpm -i something.rpm but that doesn't seem to do it 
so could someone please help me? should the rpm be in a certain folder 
first? 

[newbie] Installing rpm's never stops

[Wilson]

Since I installed KDE 2.1 when I try to install or uninstall an rpm, either 
from a terminal window or with rpmdrake, it just keeps the harddrive going 
and you can't really move the mouse or anything.  I finally have to hit the 
reset button to get out of it.  If anybody has any idea of what I can do to 
correct this I'd appreciate it.

Wilson

Re: [newbie] Installing rpm's never stops

[Greg Sarsons]

as root 

rpm --rebuilddb

your dbase might be messed up



Wilson wrote:
 
 Since I installed KDE 2.1 when I try to install or uninstall an rpm, either
 from a terminal window or with rpmdrake, it just keeps the harddrive going
 and you can't really move the mouse or anything.  I finally have to hit the
 reset button to get out of it.  If anybody has any idea of what I can do to
 correct this I'd appreciate it.
 
 Wilson

-- 
It said use Windows 98 or better so I installed Linux.

Re: [newbie] Installing rpm's never stops

[civileme]

On Tuesday 02 January 2001 16:00, you wrote:
 Since I installed KDE 2.1 when I try to install or uninstall an rpm, either
 from a terminal window or with rpmdrake, it just keeps the harddrive going
 and you can't really move the mouse or anything.  I finally have to hit the
 reset button to get out of it.  If anybody has any idea of what I can do to
 correct this I'd appreciate it.

 Wilson
rpm --rebuilddb

Civileme