Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday December 3 2002 07:09 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > That only leaves the cookers, > > How risky is it going to be, I mean , what other choice left to me > is there. What have I got to loose, a buggered up printer maybe, > a sodded up oS, well if the worse comes to the worse I can > pu

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:37, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP Thanks everyone for the advice, I achieved the result, unfortunately no update was offered. I only got the standard M9.0 install, which are broken. I was connected to the net. I guess I'm down to forcing cooker i

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP Thanks everyone for the advice, I achieved the result, unfortunately no update was offered. I only got the standard M9.0 install, which are broken. I was connected to the net. I guess I'm down to forcing cooker installs, as an OS with a broken printer driver is usel

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:37, Derek Jennings wrote: > SNIP > > > > > > Thanks everyone for the advice, I achieved the result, > > > unfortunately no update was offered. I only got the > > > standard M9.0 install, which are broken. > > > I was connected to the net. > > > > > > I guess I'm down to for

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP > > > > Thanks everyone for the advice, I achieved the result, > > unfortunately no update was offered. I only got the > > standard M9.0 install, which are broken. > > I was connected to the net. > > > > I guess I'm down to forcing cooker installs, as an OS with a broken > > printer driver is

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 12:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 10:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:57 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I am trying to upd

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 12:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > >On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 10:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Derek Jennings wrote: > >>>On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:57 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > I am trying to update a printer driver, having removed th

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 10:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:57 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I am trying to update a printer driver, having removed the old ones. [root@localhost root]# rpm -i --force /mnt/ext2-vol

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 10:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > >On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:57 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>I am trying to update a printer driver, having removed the old ones. > >> > >>[root@localhost root]# rpm -i --force > >>/mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/libgi

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:57 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I am trying to update a printer driver, having removed the old ones. [root@localhost root]# rpm -i --force /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/libgimpprint1-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/libgimpprint1-4.2.3-

Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday December 3 2002 02:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > What about using: > > rpm -Uivh --force --no-deps > > ...as the command instead? Usually a _very_ bad idea. --force is useful if you're installing an rpm over an rpm of the same version because you screwed it up. --nodeps is useful

[newbie] rpm install failures

2002-12-03 Thread John Richard Smith
I am trying to update a printer driver, having removed the old ones. [root@localhost root]# rpm -i --force /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/libgimpprint1-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/libgimpprint1-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm: read manifest failed: Success [root@localhost root]# why won't it