: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM TRouble...please help!
May be a silly question, but are you logged in as su or root when you
try to install the rpm?
In the gui, it tells you you have to be root (although logging in as su in
the terminal window works
I suppose that it is because you don't give to rpm the right name of
package :
Once a package file [foo.rpm] is installed, it is recorded in the rpm
database as beeing the package "foo". So you have two choices :
Query the installed package :
rpm -ql foo
or query the uninstalled package
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Subject: [newbie] RPM TRouble...please help!
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:30:47 -0600
From: "James McLaughlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a system running Mandrake 7.0. Whenever I run rpm -Uvh foo.rpm (or
ivh)it ru
I have a system running Mandrake 7.0. Whenever I run rpm -Uvh foo.rpm (or
ivh)it runs through the
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and brings me back to a prompt. Then I querry the rpm that I just
installed..and it says "package not installed"
The current RPM I am trying to work with is the
May be a silly question, but are you logged in as su or root when you
try to install the rpm?
In the gui, it tells you you have to be root (although logging in as su in
the terminal window works just as well from KDE).
I hope I didn't offend by asking.
Bambi
James McLaughlin wrote:
I have a
