Subject: Re: RPM hangs removing packages...
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 21:43:41 MST
kpackage is savy to something that rpm isn't?
-- John
Avinash Gupta wrote:
>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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