Re: rpm not working on fedora core 3 using fresh install

From: Thomas Cameron (thomas.cameron_at_camerontech.com)
Date: 07/29/05

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To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    > Gang,
    >
    > I running this line as root " rpm http://apt.kspei.com fedora/3/i386
    > kspei", any idea why I have this results:

    Because you need to pass an argument to rpm and specify an actual package,
    not a directory. For instance (the following should all be one command):

    rpm -i
    http://apt.kspei.com/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.kspei/kspei-admin-1.3-1.noarch.rpm

    Thomas 

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