RPMs.

[Brian Kelsay]

Chris wrote:

> I have a quick question (I hope).
> 
> I went to walk a friend through an installation of an rpm that she didn't have 
> installed on a RH9 install (it's on an older box - like an MMX 233 with 96MB 
> - but it runs OK) and when I got her into a terminal and had her rpm the 
> package (openssl) the install never completed. It just hung. 
> 
> So I had her kill the process and went back to reinstall it when she got an 
> error saying that it was already installed. I had her do an rpm -e 
> package_name and the system told her it wasn't installed.
> 
> How can I get that rpm out of there and try to reinstall it?
> 
> She downloaded the version from rpmfind.net, since she didn't have the CDs (I 
> have the originals). 
> 
>

http://www.rt.com/man/rpm.8.html
In case I missed something else.

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Hmmm.