Hi,
I just installed mandrake 8 and am trying to install rpms. However,
whenever I run rpm -i file.rpm, it just seems to hang. I've also tried
Gnome RPM and it also hangs. Has anyone else been having this
problem? Any suggestions on how I could get rpms installed?
Hi Anthony,
You could try doing rpm -iv or -ivv, to get some verbose messages. Also you
might try firing up another console when it hangs, do a detailed ps listing or
run top or something like that, to see if you can find out what exact process
is hanging, and if it's gobbling up all the
