Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...

2001-05-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Petre, I have some bad news and ...some more bad news... RPM 4 is completely uncomaptible with Mandrake 7.2. Do not, under any circumstances even whisper to your machine that you're thinking about trying to get that program onto your system. To tell you the truth you really don't need it

Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...

2001-05-10 Thread Petre Daniel
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Ok...try this... Open Kpackage as root and then do your searching that way. you will want to find the RPM packages that were installed. other then that there isn't anything else you can do other then completely reinstalling the system. Mark

Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...

2001-05-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Ok...try this... Open Kpackage as root and then do your searching that way. you will want to find the RPM packages that were installed. other then that there isn't anything else you can do other then completely reinstalling the system. Mark On Tue, 8 May 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: this is

Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...

2001-05-10 Thread Petre Daniel
this is what i get when i give rpm -qa| grep any package rpm -qa| grep nets /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: /lib/libdb.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/librpm.so.0) so any help? thx hor starters i can't use rpm at all. so i am asking for a method to uninstall by hand the

Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...

2001-05-10 Thread Petre Daniel
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Petre, What you may want to try is uninstalling just the RPM packages and then reinstalling RPM 3.x or what ever it was that was there when you installed the system. You should be able to get the packages you need from one of the many Mandrake FTP

Re: [newbie] RPM big problem...

2001-05-10 Thread C. H. Close
Petre Daniel wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Petre, I have some bad news and ...some more bad news... RPM 4 is completely uncomaptible with Mandrake 7.2. Do not, under any circumstances even whisper to your machine that you're thinking about trying to get that

[newbie] RPM big problem...

2001-05-09 Thread Petre Daniel
Heya,this is my problem... After i installed mdk 7.2 on a ppro200/32mbRAM/4gbHDD i started updating packages from the net. I downloaded the rpm 4 package and it asked for glibc 2.2 i believe kinda' forced install rpm -iF glibc2.2. anyways it seemd alright.but now look what do i get when i