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 ne

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:

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 >> anoth

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 w

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 L

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 nor

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-07 Thread Raj Mathur
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 of RPM permi

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
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. here are some examples : rpm -qa will give you a list of all packages on the machine r

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-04 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 04 Nov 2008, Subhanjan Ghosh wrote: > One of my Linux box(RHEL4u6) is not showing any output of the command > *rpm –qa.* What's the exact command you are giving? rpm -qa. without any space between the qa and the . ? -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-04 Thread Subhanjan Ghosh
It is directly comming to prompt with no message On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:19 PM, satyaakam goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Subhanjan Ghosh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its not giving any erros directly comming back to prompt. > i get the following output on

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-04 Thread satyaakam goswami
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Subhanjan Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its not giving any erros directly comming back to prompt. i get the following output on RHEL 4.7 $*rpm -qa.* fontconfig-devel-2.3.94-18.5.x86_64.rpm: No match. ___ ilugd mailin

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-04 Thread Subhanjan Ghosh
Its not giving any erros directly comming back to prompt. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:54 PM, satyaakam goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Subhanjan Ghosh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A small help needed. > > > > > > > > One of my Linux box(RHEL4u6) is not showin

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-04 Thread satyaakam goswami
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Subhanjan Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A small help needed. > > > > One of my Linux box(RHEL4u6) is not showing any output of the command *rpm > –qa.* > > However all the other switches are working fine.I have rebuilded the rpm > database still it is not workin

[ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-04 Thread Subhanjan Ghosh
A small help needed. One of my Linux box(RHEL4u6) is not showing any output of the command *rpm –qa.* However all the other switches are working fine.I have rebuilded the rpm database still it is not working. Kindly help. I dont know whether I have done some wrong in shooting the mail to ent