Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-08 Thread Subhanjan Ghosh
Hi Karan, I want to list all the rpms that are installed on the Linux box.If I pipe a grep and a specfic name of a package it is not showing. I am unable to query the rpm database. On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Subhanjan Ghosh wrote: One of my Linux

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-08 Thread Arindam Ghosh
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 Nov 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Subhanjan Ghosh wrote: One of my Linux box(RHEL4u6) is not showing any output of the command *rpm –qa.* the 'a' in your command line means 'all', you would not normally have

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-08 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 08 Nov 2008, Arindam Ghosh wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] AFAIR newer versions of RPM permit commands of the form: rpm -qa fileutil\* to display all rpms whose name begins with ``fileutil''. I could be wrong though,

[ilugd] mephistopheles encounters the EULA

2008-11-08 Thread Linux Lingam
biting humour from xkcd on the end-user-license agreement: http://xkcd.com/501/ regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-08 Thread Atanu Datta
On Sat, November 8, 2008 1:02 pm, Raj Mathur said: On Friday 07 Nov 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Subhanjan Ghosh wrote: One of my Linux box(RHEL4u6) is not showing any output of the command *rpm –qa.* the 'a' in your command line means 'all', you would not normally have another parameter

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-08 Thread Atanu Datta
On Sat, November 8, 2008 3:31 pm, Subhanjan Ghosh said: Hi Karan, I want to list all the rpms that are installed on the Linux box.If I pipe a grep and a specfic name of a package it is not showing. I am unable to query the rpm database. If the following command returns zero results: rpm

[ilugd] GPL Violations by Diebold

2008-11-08 Thread Mani A
Diebold has a long tradition of manufacturing poorly specified, horrible voting machines for the make-believe elections in US at least. They violate the GPL too it seems http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2554621839.html?kc=rss Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

Re: [ilugd] mephistopheles encounters the EULA

2008-11-08 Thread Nalin Savara
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: biting humour from xkcd on the end-user-license agreement: snip hmm who's mephistopheles ? Regards, NS ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Atanu Datta wrote: If the following command returns zero results: rpm -qa then, maybe your rpm database is corrupt. I guess under the circumstances first you need to delete the corrupt database: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* This will delete the database files. Now, simple rebuild the

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Raj Mathur wrote: On Friday 07 Nov 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Subhanjan Ghosh wrote: One of my Linux box(RHEL4u6) is not showing any output of the command *rpm –qa.* the 'a' in your command line means 'all', you would not normally have another parameter after that. AFAIR newer versions

Re: [ilugd] mephistopheles encounters the EULA

2008-11-08 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: biting humour from xkcd on the end-user-license agreement: snip hmm who's mephistopheles ? classical western literature with biblical references: the