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[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

>This is a problem with the RPM databases.  You have to go, as root, to 
>/var/lib/rpm and remove the existing databases.  Then you have to do an 
>'rpm --rebuilddb' to see if it'll heal.
>
>Gerry
>
>Byron Smith wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> 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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>
>-- 
>Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu
>Network Engineering -- AATLT, Texas A&M University	
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