RPMs.

[lowell]

This is a CONSTANT occurence w/ rpm; I don't know what to do about it, 
though...

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, 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). 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris
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