[rhn-users] RPM Not Processing - Not Using CPU

[Alfred Hovdestad]

There are a couple of things that you can try.  First, clean out the 
temporary files and rebuild the rpm db:

# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
# rpm --rebuilddb

The easiest way to install a package that was not part of the original 
install is to use up2date:

# up2date samba

up2date will work out the dependencies for you and download all of the 
required packages.  It will also download the latest version of the 
package which is sometimes necessary if you have updated some of the 
prerequisite packages.

If you do not have access to RHN, then you can install from your 
distribution but you will have to work out the dependencies.


    Alfred Hovdestad
    University of Saskatchewan




Delta.Root wrote:
> I've been attempting to install packages that wew not part of the
> default installation that Red Hat workstation did.  But I can't seem to
> make much progress.
> 
> First, attempts to get Samba installed and configured to begin to make
> "life migrating from Windows" a little easier resulted in messages about
> -common not being around, and after thinking I added what I needed my
> "database" doesn't think I changed anything - so I suspect I now have
> created two, if that's possible, the second from double-clicking on the
> files I downloaded from samba.org
> 
> When I go back to the CDROM, the initial check of package headers never
> completes, and a check of the system shows it isn't doing anything (0%
> CPU), as if there was some error that caused a silent death.
> 
> If I could just get the webserver installed...but that also says some
> required package isn't on my system and it doesn't have any suggestion
> on how to get it there.
> 
> I've read RPM docs on the web, and "rpm -V -a" doesn't even blink the
> busy light on the disk.
> 
> Please point me in the right direction, as this is my first experience
> with RPM, and it's been quite awhile since I've done SCCS and SysV
> packaging.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Delta
> 
> 
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