Re: Modem configuration:

From: Dances With Crows (danceswithcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 07/14/03 

Date: 14 Jul 2003 18:30:24 GMT

On 14 Jul 2003 11:09:59 -0700, Rob staggered into the Black Sun and
said:

When following up to an article, include context so people know what the
hell you're talking about! I almost deleted this without reading it.
And don't post the same message twice.

[ Summary: Rob is having trouble with the ltmodem RPM for Redhat
something-or-other. He tried to rpm -Uvh it, but its automatic
installation script failed midway through because /dev/modem already
existed. His attempt to rpm -Uvh it again after removing /dev/modem
failed, because the RPM database thought the package was already
installed. ]

> [root@localhost ]# rpm -e ltmodem
> error: package ltmodem is not installed
> [root@localhost ]# rpm -e ltmodem-kv_2.4.20_6-8.26a9-1.athlon.rpm
> error: package ltmodem is not installed
> [root@localhost ]# rpm -Uvh ltmodem-kv_2.4.20_6-8.26a9-1.athlon.rpm
> (100%########################################### [100%]
> package ltmodem-kv_2.4.20_6-8.26a9-1 is already installed
>
> Says I don't have anything installed, and says I have the same thing
> installed. I know when I'm beat.

This database silliness is one of the main reasons why RPM is not a
suitable package management system. (Dependency Hell is the other.)
You can probably find out what the database thinks the ltmodem package
is called by doing "rpm -qa | grep modem". One of the lines will look
like:

ltmodem-kv_blah_foo

...and you'd rpm -e *that* , not the full name of the package with
version#s added, certainly not the name of the package file. Then try
again.

If you try this and you still can't get it to work, grab the source
tarball instead and use that. 

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