Invalid RPM entries

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jan 11 18:03:00 UTC 2006


Bob Hartung wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I have been in running in a circle getting ready to set up a MIRC 
> server.  I did manage to rebuild rpms for java-1.5.0.06 using Paul 
> Horwarth's instructions.  Install went okay and 'java -version' reports 
> as it should.
> 
>   I had previously tried to remove all remenants of tomcat4 and a trial 
> install of tomcat5 from my system.  When I do a rpm -qa | grep tomcat I 
> still get three tomcat5 listings:  -servlet-2.4-api  -jasper and tomcat 
> itself all with the _6fc ending rather than the -8jpp I expect since I 
> am trying to install from jpackage.org with 'yum --enablerepo jpackage* 
> install tomcat5'.  An attempt to rm -e [above files] reports that they 
> are not installed.
> 
>   I have rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 thru __db.003 tne them rpm 
> --rebuilddb without success

What happens if you do:

# yum -enablerepo=jpackage\* update

Paul.




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