Re: rpm questions?

From: Michael Schwendt (ms-nospam-0306_at_arcor.de)
Date: 10/10/03

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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:24:56 +0200

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    On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:42:37 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:

    > > 2. We have a Redhat advance server.
    > > The administrator had not up to today activated the rhn_register/up2date
    > > setup.
    > > When he tried, he got the errors related to the ssl Certificate that
    > > expired.
    > > I told him to download the new rpms and install them.
    > > He got those and ran md5checksum on them successfuly.
    > > When one gives any rpm command envolving these downloaded files, rpm
    > > responds by coming
    > > back to a prompt with no output.
    > > eg. rpm -ihv rhn_register*rpm just comes back to a prompt without any
    > > output.
    > > rpm -qip rhn_register*rpm does the same.
    > > Please help?
    >
    > Tell him he should get the binary rpms, NOT the *.src.rpm packages.

    And of course, the downloaded packages must be in the current
    directory when "rpm -ivh rhn_register*rpm" is run upon them. Else you
    would also get back to the prompt without any output. So, make sure
    the files are there before the wildcard '*' is used.

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