Ah! Welcome to rpm hell! Not nearly so bad as screwed up Windows
registry hell, and I'm sure much better then attempting to do any sort
of audio editing on the upcoming "DRM enhanced" MS Windows, but still not
necessarily fun.
Which rpm's are you having trouble with? The actual output rpm is
giving you with your failed attempts may help. Additionally executing
the following:
rpm -qa | gzip -9 > rpm-qalisting.gz
and attaching the resulting rpm-qalisting.gz to your message would help
shed some light on the problem.
Thus spake Mark Saunders on the 01 day of the 10 month in the year 2002:
> Hello
> I have a problem with the RPM database on a RedHat 7.2 system. I have
> been trying to install some rpm files and it tells me the rpm -ivh
> command will not work because the rpm is already installed. If I query
> the rpm or try to verify it it says it is not installed. The same goes
> for removing (-e) the rpm it says the rpm file is not installed. I did
> run the rpm command to rebuild the database (rpm -dbrebuild) but it did
> not help. To be specific this has happened on three separate occasions,
> once with the Realplayer8 rpm, once with xawtv, and now it is happening
> when I try to load Nvidia video driver rpms. If I query all rpm -qa the
> questionable rpms are not in the list, as I suspected they would not be.
>
> This seems a just little too close to windows registry problems!
>
> Seriously does anyone have any advice here to get this thing ( the rpm
> database ) straightened out?
-- Matthew MoenDebating unix flavors in the context of anything Microsoft is like talking about which ice cream flavor tastes least like sawdust with turpentine sauce.
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