RE: rpm question

2003-07-31 Thread Barry Johnson
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rpm question RedHat 9, fresh install. rpm -i perl-CGI-2.81-88.i386.rpm Entered the command and nothing happened for 10 minutes and it seemed my session had locked up, so I disconnected and reconnected. The process was orphaned, so I killed it. Now, just

Re: rpm question

2003-07-31 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Ed, Wrap your lines please. Now, just running rpm -qa doesn't seem to work. I entered the command 10 minutes ago and it's still sitting there with no apparent activity. Have a look in /var/lib/rpm and see if there are any __db* files. Delete these and see if that fixes things. Maybe

Re: rpm question

2003-07-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:40:19 -0700, RedHat Mailing List wrote: RedHat 9, fresh install. rpm -i perl-CGI-2.81-88.i386.rpm Entered the command and nothing happened for 10 minutes and it seemed my session had locked up, so I disconnected and

Re: rpm question

2003-07-31 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Barry Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:18:35 -0400 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RedHat Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rpm question

rpm question

2003-07-30 Thread RedHat Mailing List
RedHat 9, fresh install. rpm -i perl-CGI-2.81-88.i386.rpm Entered the command and nothing happened for 10 minutes and it seemed my session had locked up, so I disconnected and reconnected. The process was orphaned, so I killed it. Now, just running rpm -qa doesn't seem to work. I entered

XFree86 / RPM Question

2003-01-14 Thread exits funnel
Hello, I've recently installed RedHat 7.2 which includes XFree86 3.3.6. I then rand up2date -u which installed/updated everything under the sun. Now when I type: rpm -qa | grep XFree I see both the 3.3.6 stuff as well as the 4.1.0 stuff. I need to be running the 4.1.0 stuff to support the

RPM question

2003-01-09 Thread Mobeen Azhar
rpm -qa | grep XXX shows package XXX installed. I need to remove XXX from the RPM database without making any other changes to the system. In other words, I just want package XXX to stop from showing up in rpm -qa but I do not want rpm to uninstall anything from the box. How can this be done?

Re: RPM question

2003-01-09 Thread Anand Buddhdev
- Original Message - From: Mobeen Azhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:44 PM Subject: RPM question rpm -qa | grep XXX shows package XXX installed. I need to remove XXX from the RPM database without making any other changes to the system

RE: RPM question

2003-01-09 Thread Mobeen Azhar
Thanks a bunch Anand Buddhdev, I will check that out. --Moby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Anand Buddhdev Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 17:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RPM question - Original Message - From

rpm question

2002-06-24 Thread Steve Lee
my rpm database seem to have !#@d up. i tried to do a rpm --rebuilddb but that didn't seem to update the database of rpm's installed on my box. When i do a rpm -qa i only see like 22 packages, which is wrong. I should have around 240 packages installed. how can i go about fixing this by

Re: rpm question

2002-06-24 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:43:09PM -0700, Steve Lee wrote: my rpm database seem to have !#@d up. i tried to do a rpm --rebuilddb What is the output of rpm --rebuilddb -v -v ? The last 20 lines should suffice. Emmanuel ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Thomas
Yes! This is what I need to do, thanks! The only trouble is when I try: rpm2cpio SysVinit-2.77-2.i386.rpm | cpio -dim --no-absolute-filenames I get a 'broken pipe' error:( Thanks again, --Paul On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: Don't use rpm at all for this. You can use

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 June 2002 04:19 am, Paul Thomas wrote: Yes! This is what I need to do, thanks! The only trouble is when I try: rpm2cpio SysVinit-2.77-2.i386.rpm | cpio -dim --no-absolute-filenames I get a 'broken pipe' error:( Hrmm, I don't

Another RPM - Question

2002-06-12 Thread Spanke, Alexander
Hi, i want manually install the X- and KDE- System on my RH72 System, now i get dependencies - error. OK, i try to correct these errors, but now i get dependencie errors on different files, i know how i can query an installed package for a file, but not a not installed packeges. Any ideas ?

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Thomas
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 June 2002 04:19 am, Paul Thomas wrote: Yes! This is what I need to do, thanks! The only trouble is when I try: rpm2cpio SysVinit-2.77-2.i386.rpm | cpio -dim

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Thomas
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: rpm2cpio SysVinit-2.77-2.i386.rpm | cpio -dim --no-absolute-filenames I get a 'broken pipe' error:( Hrmm, I don't have that version available at present. Have you verified that the rpm is good? It works here with a slightly different

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Thomas
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Paul Thomas wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: rpm2cpio SysVinit-2.77-2.i386.rpm | cpio -dim --no-absolute-filenames I get a 'broken pipe' error:( Hrmm, I don't have that version available at present. Have you verified that the rpm

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Joseph V Moss
There's one more thing you should look at when examining an RPM to see what it's going to install on your system: the install scripts. rpm -q --scripts somerpm.arch.rpm should let you see what changes the rpm will make besides just installing new files. On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Paul Thomas

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Thomas
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Joseph V Moss wrote: There's one more thing you should look at when examining an RPM to see what it's going to install on your system: the install scripts. rpm -q --scripts somerpm.arch.rpm should let you see what changes the rpm will make besides just installing

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Joseph V Moss
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Joseph V Moss wrote: There's one more thing you should look at when examining an RPM to see what it's going to install on your system: the install scripts. rpm -q --scripts somerpm.arch.rpm should let you see what changes the rpm will make besides just

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Thomas
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Joseph V Moss wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Joseph V Moss wrote: There's one more thing you should look at when examining an RPM to see what it's going to install on your system: the install scripts. rpm -q --scripts somerpm.arch.rpm should let

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 June 2002 07:58 pm, Paul Thomas wrote: I'll paste from several different mails here... How do I verify the package is good? I downloaded the distribution snapshot from ftp://ftp.redhat.com. rpm -K [packagename] will check the

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-12 Thread cgalpin
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Paul Thomas wrote: Actually I'm trying to unpack and install some of these rpm's on another machine (Slackware) that has some drive space, etc. Sorry to seem so inept. I'm used to working with tarballs that I can plant anywhere I want. Then get the tarball. Or get the

RPM question..

2002-06-11 Thread Paul Thomas
Hi, I made a directory called 'work'. In it I put an rpm package. I would like to unpack this package and install itself with directory tree in a subdirectory of the 'work' directory. I don't want rpm to install the package in the system itself. I just want to be able to inspect a few things

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-11 Thread Brian Ashe
Paul Thomas, On Tuesday June 11, 2002 04:13, you said something about: Hi, I made a directory called 'work'. In it I put an rpm package. I would like to unpack this package and install itself with directory tree in a subdirectory of the 'work' directory. I don't want rpm to install the

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-11 Thread Paul Thomas
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Brian Ashe wrote: Paul Thomas, On Tuesday June 11, 2002 04:13, you said something about: Hi, I made a directory called 'work'. In it I put an rpm package. I would like to unpack this package and install itself with directory tree in a subdirectory of the

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 June 2002 04:13 pm, Paul Thomas wrote: Hi, I made a directory called 'work'. In it I put an rpm package. I would like to unpack this package and install itself with directory tree in a subdirectory of the 'work' directory. I don't

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-11 Thread Brian Ashe
Paul Thomas, On Tuesday June 11, 2002 06:42, you said something about: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Brian Ashe wrote: Paul Thomas, On Tuesday June 11, 2002 04:13, you said something about: Hi, I made a directory called 'work'. In it I put an rpm package. I would like to unpack this

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Bradford
Paul, Check out the man page for rpm (man rpm) and look up the part that talks about the --root option. This should be what you're looking for. - matt - Original Message - From: Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: RPM

Re: RPM question..

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 June 2002 08:37 pm, Matthew Bradford wrote: Paul, Check out the man page for rpm (man rpm) and look up the part that talks about the --root option. This should be what you're looking for. Not likely to do what he wants, I don't

Re: Please help about rpm question

2002-04-12 Thread Mike Burger
Try rpm --rebuilddb, first. On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all I have rpm question After installing the db3 rpm packages in RH6.2, I got core dump when running rpm -qa! How do I recover it? Thank you for your help

Please help about rpm question

2002-04-10 Thread angelaoyu
Dear all I have rpm question After installing the db3 rpm packages in RH6.2, I got core dump when running rpm -qa! How do I recover it? Thank you for your help ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman

rpm question

2002-03-30 Thread ann kok
Hi all After upgrade db3, I used rpm -qa but got Segmentation fault How do I do it? Thank you __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/

Re: rpm question

2002-03-30 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
Try rpm --rebuilddb first. -Manuel. ann kok wrote: Hi all After upgrade db3, I used rpm -qa but got Segmentation fault How do I do it? Thank you __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter,

Re: RPM question

2001-12-05 Thread Mike Burger
Install the latest Perl RPM. On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Ian Dobson wrote: I installed perl from source, not from and rpm and now any time I install anything that depends on perl it says error failed dependancies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by whatever.rpm I do have a /usr/bin/perl and it does

Re: RPM question

2001-12-05 Thread Mike Burger
Oooo...--justdb? I didn't know about that switch. On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Brian Ashe wrote: Hi Ian, On Tuesday, December 04, 2001, 11:46:40 PM, you babbled something about: ID I installed perl from source, not from and rpm and now any time I install ID anything that depends on perl it

Re: RPM question

2001-12-05 Thread Mike Burger
The modules are of no consequence, as far as the RPM database goes, from what I've seen. On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Ian Dobson wrote: Ya, I thought about that, but perl is only one of them, I have a good 30 or 40 perl modules installed that were installed through cpan, so I'd also have to get

Re: RPM question

2001-12-05 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Ian, Ya, I thought about that, but perl is only one of them, I have a good 30 or 40 perl modules installed that were installed through cpan If these are modules that are not in the distro it is unlikely that you will find any dependencies on them. In 7.2 one or two of

Re: RPM question

2001-12-05 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:46:40PM -0800, Ian Dobson wrote: I installed perl from source, not from and rpm and now any time I install anything that depends on perl it says error failed dependancies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by whatever.rpm I do have a /usr/bin/perl and it does work, and if

Re: RPM question

2001-12-04 Thread Brian Ashe
Hi Ian, On Tuesday, December 04, 2001, 11:46:40 PM, you babbled something about: ID I installed perl from source, not from and rpm and now any time I install ID anything that depends on perl it says ID error failed dependancies: ID /usr/bin/perl is needed by whatever.rpm ID I do have a

Re: RPM question

2001-12-04 Thread Ian Dobson
Ya, I thought about that, but perl is only one of them, I have a good 30 or 40 perl modules installed that were installed through cpan, so I'd also have to get those rpm's, I was just wondering if you could update the rpm database to include other stuff withough actually going to the trouble

rpm question

2001-11-12 Thread BobH
Hi, I am going to update my RH7.2 install before recompiling the kernel and trying my had at iptables. To make life easier I used IglooFTP-PRO to download ALL the updates from the RH site and burned them to a CD. Now if I do a rpm -Uvh * from the mounted CD, I understand that this will

Re: rpm question

2001-11-12 Thread cgalpin
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, BobH wrote: Hi, I am going to update my RH7.2 install before recompiling the kernel and trying my had at iptables. To make life easier I used IglooFTP-PRO to download ALL the updates from the RH site and burned them to a CD. Now if I do a rpm -Uvh * from the

Re: rpm question

2001-11-12 Thread BobH
Charles, Thanks. Better get my glasses checked. I skipped over the -F arguement. Thanks again, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, BobH wrote: Hi, I am going to update my RH7.2 install before recompiling the kernel and trying my had at iptables. To make life

rpm question

2001-04-28 Thread Bob Hartung
Okay how is this possible? I was trying to upgrade a library libxml.so.1 to libxml.so.2 I downloaded libxml-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm and did rpm -i --test libxml-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm and it returned rpm libxml-1.8.1 is newer than libxml-2.0.0-1 and is already installed. I have just upgraded by RH

Re: A kernel rpm question

2001-02-18 Thread Mike Burger
Why not do an "rpm -ivh" instead...have both versions side by side, and make sure that the 686 version flies for you. On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Peter Kiem wrote: I've installed the .i386 version of the kernel and completely forgot there was a .i686 version available. I would like to install the

Re: A kernel rpm question

2001-02-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Mike Burger wrote: Why not do an "rpm -ivh" instead...have both versions side by side, and make sure that the 686 version flies for you. Because both packages have the same name? :-) (The RPM files have different names, but the package name is the same.)

Re: A kernel rpm question

2001-02-18 Thread Mike Burger
Well, assuming you have more than one kernel installed, I suppose you could try uninstalling the .386 version. I just don't know if --force will break anything or not. G On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Mike Burger wrote: Why not do an "rpm -ivh"

A kernel rpm question

2001-02-17 Thread Peter Kiem
I've installed the .i386 version of the kernel and completely forgot there was a .i686 version available. I would like to install the .i686 version instead but if wont let me do a "rpm -Fvh" or "rpm -Uvh" of the .i686 kernel rpm. Is it safe in this case to use a "--force" and will that in fact

Re: A kernel rpm question

2001-02-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Peter Kiem wrote: I've installed the .i386 version of the kernel and completely forgot there was a .i686 version available. I would like to install the .i686 version instead but if wont let me do a "rpm -Fvh" or "rpm -Uvh" of the .i686 kernel rpm. Is it safe in this

Re: Stupid RPM question

2001-01-22 Thread Jeff Lane
Go here: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2000-051-01.html that will give you the correct packages to upgrade RPM to the new version On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, David Trollope wrote: Hi, I'm probably going to ask a very stupid question, so before I get flamed, I have looked at some

Re: Stupid RPM question

2001-01-22 Thread David Trollope
Hi Jeff, et al. Thanks alot - I'l get to this one day this week. Dave On 22-Jan-01, you wrote: Go here: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2000-051-01.html that will give you the correct packages to upgrade RPM to the new version On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, David Trollope wrote:

Stupid RPM question

2001-01-21 Thread David Trollope
Hi, I'm probably going to ask a very stupid question, so before I get flamed, I have looked at some FAQs, and I have tried downloading different versions...but to no avail. Please don't slam me, just point the misguided soul in the right direction. :-) I have RedHat 6.1 running, and downloaded

Re: Stupid RPM question

2001-01-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
David Trollope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have RedHat 6.1 running, and downloaded some rpms from rpmfind. Now when I try to install them, it complains about the rpms being a later version than the rpm tool can handle. Easy I thought, I'll download the latest rpm package. Except, that needs

Re: Stupid RPM question

2001-01-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, David Trollope wrote: Hi, I'm probably going to ask a very stupid question, so before I get flamed, I have looked at some FAQs, and I have tried downloading different versions...but to no avail. Please don't slam me, just point the misguided soul in the right

RPM Question

2000-06-06 Thread Mark Bayles
I have been trying to install a RPM package and it seems I have struck some type of issue while installing a package. I am trying to install DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1.i386.rpm When I try to install it says it's already installed. Then when I try to uninstall it says it's not installed. I have used

Re: RPM Question

2000-06-06 Thread Bret Hughes
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: Try rpm -e DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1 without the .i386.rpm. RPM lists the package name in it's data base, and the package name does not include the arc-type or the rpm extension. Good advice but my guess is that the version info won't be in the package name

Re: RPM Question

2000-06-06 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Mark Bayles wrote: I have been trying to install a RPM package and it seems I have struck some type of issue while installing a package. I am trying to install DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1.i386.rpm When I try to install it says it's already installed. Then when I try to uninstall

Re: RPM question -- setting info from environment

2000-03-19 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Michael Ju. Tokarev" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It controlled by "%define lfs 0" in .spec. Can I say, for example, "rpm --rebuild kernel-...src.rpm lfn=1" ? rpm --rebuild --define 'lfs 1' k*src.rpm -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Pasadena, CA USA

Re: RPM question -- setting info from environment

2000-03-19 Thread John Summerfield
Hi! Two (little?) rpm questions. Is it possible within .spec file to define some rpm variables (for example, %requires, maybe %release) based on something from running system? Example of usage here is trivial: No. I tried and it worked, sort of. It got the required value when used to

Re: RPM question -- setting info from environment

2000-03-19 Thread Michael Ju. Tokarev
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: "Michael Ju. Tokarev" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It controlled by "%define lfs 0" in .spec. Can I say, for example, "rpm --rebuild kernel-...src.rpm lfn=1" ? rpm --rebuild --define 'lfs 1' k*src.rpm That can seems strange. It seemed that this --define is

RPM question -- setting info from environment

2000-03-18 Thread Michael Ju. Tokarev
Hi! Two (little?) rpm questions. Is it possible within .spec file to define some rpm variables (for example, %requires, maybe %release) based on something from running system? Example of usage here is trivial: we can made separate package from pcmcia-cs (currently in kernel) and make two