Trouble with RPM install/uninstall

Stephen W winstephen at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 16 00:31:22 UTC 2004


Using RedHat 9.0

Tried to install xine ... missing dependencies... 
kept going... 
finally learned of and began to use apt/synaptic.

Now told there are two versions of xinetd installed
and I would have problems... 

tried to uninstall xine and then xinetd and here are
the results...

[root at localhost winstephen]# rpm -evv --test xinetd |
more
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly
mode=0x0
error: "xinetd" specifies multiple packages
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
[root at localhost winstephen]# rpm -evv --test xine |
more
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly
mode=0x0
error: package xine is not installed
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages


Now what do I do 


		
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