Subject: Re: RPM hangs removing packages...
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 21:25:30 MST
If you have KDE running, you may want to try installing the package using the
KDE 'Package Manager' or kpackage.
-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:10, you wrote:
> I had su'd on top of the user account. Note the "#" in the shell prompt.
>
> Maybe logging in as root instead of running a su shell?
>
> -- John
>
> Avinash Gupta wrote:
> >John,
> >
> >You need to run 'yup' as root and also 'rpm' as root. From your output
> > below, it doesn't seem you are running these commands as root ...
> >
> >-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
> >
> >On Saturday 12 January 2002 08:01, you wrote:
> >>All,
> >>
> >>I recently tried to do a yup update and this failed with the following
> >>error message:
> >>
> >>
> >>*[john@guanine packages]# yup update
> >>Reading RPM database... (100%)
> >>Performing dependencies sanity check...
> >>
> >>Error: Unable to satisfy dependency cpp = 2.95.3-2u for package gcc-g77*
> >>
> >>
> >>This really sucks, and I couldn't figure out a way around it so I
> >>figured removing the
> >>gcc-g77 package would be the leasat painful route. Problem is that RPM
> >>hangs while
> >>doing the following:
> >>
> >>
> >>*[john@guanine packages]# rpm -qa | grep g77
> >>gcc-g77-2.95.3-2u
> >>
> >>john@guanine packages]# rpm -e gcc-g77-2.95.3-2u
> >>ттттт
> >>ттттт
> >>*
> >>
> >>Sooo... I'm stuck. I can't fix the RPM package set to progress and I
> >>can't do an update
> >>because of this stumbling block. So how do I move forward from here?
> >>
> >>-- John
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