RPMs.

[ismgr]

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 04:49 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

Had a resolution to this issue that I thought I'd post just FYI.

The woman that was installing this app told me the installer was asking for RH 
9 Disk 2, so I burned her a set, gave it to her, and she let the installer 
grab what it needed, and voila. Issue solved. 

Was finally able to get the RPM backed out/uninstalled thanks to a great 
suggestion here (sorry, the name escapes me now, but you know who you are) to 
use the command and address the package not by specific filename but by 
package name (is it right to call it that?).

Regardless, this worked:

[chris at 4ulord chris]$ rpm -e openssl

but this didn't:

[chris at 4ulord chris]$ rpm -e openssl-whatever-theversion-number-is-now.rpm

Thanks again for all the help, everyone. 

Chris

> On Sunday 14 September 2003 6:37 pm, lowell wrote:
> > This is a CONSTANT occurence w/ rpm; I don't know what to do about it,
> > though...
>
> I haven't had a problem with an RPM install hanging since I started running
> on reasonably stable hardware.  This is about five years of use, and the
> only problems were long, long ago on pretty shakey systems, low RAM, low
> HD.
>
> Using the --force option should (per man pages and personal experience)
> take care of any aborted install, --rebuilddb should cover anything else.
>
> Have you had specific install problems with your system that we could
> perhaps help you with?
>
>