xterm-179-4 broken

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Thu Aug 28 16:14:50 UTC 2003


On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Andre Robatino wrote:

>   Got a fatal error installing the newest xterm package from 8/28, the
> error upon attempting manual install is:
> 
> [root at localhost up2date]# rpm -Uvh xterm-179-4.1.i386.rpm
> warning: xterm-179-4.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e418e3aa
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:xterm                  ########################################### [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory

If you're already on severn, uninstalling the current xterm rpm and then
installing the new one will allow it to install....

I'm not sure what happens on RHL 9

later,
chris





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