installation problems using rpm - scriptlet failed, exit status 255

[Giulio Sorrentino]

Gabriel Labelle wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I keep getting "error: %post(package name here) scriptlet failed, exit
>status 255" when trying to install any rpm file (no matter what the rpm
>file it is) ... What can I do to solve this?
>
>Please note that I've downloaded the files from many servers (Fedora
>mirror, freshrpms, atrpms) same problem with all the rpm files.
>
>Many thanks for your time and help.
>  
>
It sounds like a post-install script malformed.
Try to recompile rpm from yourself.