Subject: Re: This will take a split second I promise...dying newbie....
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 10:31:22 MST
on 1/31/02 8:48 AM, aug_aug@yahoo.com purportedly said:
> That's a great name for a company. The message is literally "Package
> Trojka not found, please fix manually", which occurs halfway though the
> installation of my package.
>
> I guess I will try and burn the trojka rpm onto my disc, I just didn't
> want to keep manufacturing coasters, plus I have to rely on a friend
> who is running OSX and has a burner, because toast's iso doesn't work
> w/YDL for some reason....anyway thanks for your help, did you actually
> experience the same problem?
I hadn't experienced that problem, but it may be that I had already
installed the game (I find that mindless games based on spatial
relationships help reframe the mind especially when tangled up in a
difficult programming problem--like a kind of meditation ;-), or that my RPM
is in better shape.
So to get back to the issue: are you installing the openoffice RPM, by
source, or some other package? That seems a rather strange error to get from
an RPM--I don't think it is an RPM error. There may be some installation
script in the spec file that is choking. If this is happening during a
system install (I don't recall the origins of your problem), it is likely
that you have a bad or incomplete ISO. Unfortunately, the YDL installer is
very buggy and not at all robust. The only way I was able to get around my
installation problems (I would get odd fatal errors, but not the one you
mention) was to do a full install and then later remove what I didn't want.
In this case, you may try selecting the custom install option and deselect
the trojka package. I haven't had much success with custom installs, but
perhaps this small change won't hurt. This ca be something you try while
your friend is burning another ISO.
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
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