RPM installing error

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On 11/3/06, anindya banerjee <anin_ban at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Can any body help me please that  when I'm installing any rpm then I get this error.
>  recently I use RHEL4.
>
>  [root at sim root] # rpm -ivh openslp-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
>  Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>  error: %pre(openslp-1.2.0-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
>  error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping openslp-1.2.0-1

Have you taken a look at the script that fails to see if you can
determine the cause of the failure?

Something like

rpm -q --scripts -p openslp-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm

should give you some clues to check.

John