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[Byron Smith]

>I've had this same problem. Once you do an UP2DATE, you can't add packages.
>I dont know why.
>
>You go to add something, and it says its already installed.
>
>You do an rpm -qa packagename and it says its not there. I know about the 
>exact uppercase/lowercase
>spelling when doing the -qa command.
>
>I've tried the rpm --rebuilddb and still no joy.
>
>Its something new to me - I'm beginning to think it has to do with
>something up2date did to the rpm stuff. I haven't discovered how to kill 
>(wipeout) the
>rpm data base and try to get RPM to rebuild it.
>
>When I did a rpm -qs *, it showed me all the packages I manually 
>"installed" since up2date - and
>not a one of them shows up when I do the -qa command. These were ones 
>needed on the Linux rh9 laptop to attempt
>to get Xastir running on it.
>
>
>
>I had this same problem with on my first go around with rh9 - the
>only thing I finally did to resolve it was reload the whole box, with 
>"everything" installed.
>And then I *never* let it do the up2date. I've briefly searched RH's site
>to see if there is anything like this, but I haven't found it yet.
>
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>
>At 01:06 PM 10/19/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>I'm giving this another try.  Last version of
>>Xastir to compile correctly on my RH9 box was
>>1.2.0.
>>
>>I get the following error on MAKE:
>>
>>/usr/bin/ld:  cannot find -llcms
>>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>...
>>... Error 2
>>
>>However, i do have lcms-1.10-0.8.0.i386.rpm
>>and i did:  rpm -ihv lcms-1.10-0.8.0.i386.rpm
>>
>>But when i do:  rpm -qs liblcms-1.10-0.8.0
>>the response is:  package liblcms-1.10-0.8.0 is not
>>installed.
>>
>>Was there some other step i'm supposed to do, that
>>i haven't done?
>>
>>orrin wn1z
>>
>>
>>
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>
>Byron Smith
>wa6ylb at theworks.com
>
>http://www.theworks.com/~wa6ylb
>
>What was the best thing before sliced bread?
>
>



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