openoffice

[Edward Dekkers]

chen li wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> 
> Thanks. Nothing  shows up after I followed the command
> you suggested.
> 
> If I install it this way: rpm -Uvih *.rpm
> I got this message: Segmentation fault
> 
> If I install it this way: rpm -vih *.rpm
> 
> I got the following on the screen and got stuck at 4%
> forever.
> 
>  Preparing...               
> ########################################### [100%]
>    1:openoffice.org-core08 
> ########################################### [  4%]
> 
> Li
> 
> 
> 

I would not expect it to segfault that way, but you are contradicting 
the arguments.

1> U is for Updating a package.
2> i is for installing a package.
3> v is for verbose output (more messages to the console).
4> h is for the hash marking (progress bar).

So for updating a package I use:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

for installing a package from scratch (like what you should do with 
kernels) I use:

rpm -ivh *.rpm

I would expect an error in rpm if you use both i and U in the same 
command as you've done above. A segfault is a bit much and I assume the 
programmers haven't debugged that parameter combination.

As to why it takes so long, I would rebuild the rpm database and clear 
the cache files - this smells like an old problem I used to have.

Regards,
Ed.
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