On Sunday 30 December 2001 07:31, Daniel McCarthy wrote: | I downloaded and was attempting to install firestarter. The rpm had | dependencies that were on the Core System Install disk. Unfortunately | after inserting the disk the computer completely froze, leaving me no | other option than the reset button. I thought I had an idea of the | files that were needed so I copied them and placed them into a directory | of their own and added a new media with the urpmi.addmedia daniel | file://home/daniel/misc/ command. I then tried to install firestarter | again and received other dependcy errors. I gave up on installing | firestarter and removed that media. | | Now when I attempt to install anything, for example xmms, I get "Bad, | unreadable or not found packages , xmms." | | Thanks in advance for any help you have to offer | | Dan
You could try rebuilding the rpm database. In a terminal as root: # rpm --rebuilddb That may set things right. skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works
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