RPMs.
Brian Kelsay
bkelsay at comcast.net
Sun Sep 14 15:57:43 CDT 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).
>
>
http://www.rt.com/man/rpm.8.html
In case I missed something else.
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Hmmm.
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