RPM-trouble

From: Tisztaval Viktor (vikocska_at_freemail.hu)
Date: 03/06/04


Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:47:29 +0100

Hi!

I've installed Acrobat Reader some time ago. Then 'removed' it, because
I thought, I could get the newer version for Linux too (6.0). The rpm
told me that it's not installed, so I removed the containing directory,
and the icons...
After all: The I tried to re-install it. See the result below! Can
anyone help me? Where can I find the database of installed rpm-s? How
can I modify it?

Thax for your future answers.

[root@localhost Acrobat_Reader]# rpm -V acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm
package acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm is not installed
[root@localhost Acrobat_Reader]# rpm -i acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm
         package acroread-5.08-2 is already installed
[root@localhost Acrobat_Reader]# rpm -e acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm
error: package acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm is not installed
[root@localhost Acrobat_Reader]# ???

A in a longer way:

[root@localhost Acrobat_Reader]# rpm -ivv acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm
D: ============== acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm
D: Expected size: 9218142 = lead(96)+sigs(180)+pad(4)+data(9217862)
D: Actual size: 9218142
D: acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm: MD5 digest: OK
(f6a0864448c8afc482920d5db5052d08)
D: added binary package [0]
D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: ========== +++ acroread-5.08-2 i386/linux 0x1
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x0
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames rdonly mode=0x0
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
D: read h# 704 Header sanity check: OK
D: ========== DSA pubkey id 219180cddb42a60e
D: read h# 711 Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID db42a60e
D: Requires: /bin/sh YES (db files)
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename rdonly mode=0x0
D: read h# 772 Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID db42a60e
D: Requires: libX11.so.6 YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libXext.so.6 YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libXp.so.6 YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libXt.so.6 YES (db
provides)
D: read h# 710 Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID db42a60e
D: Requires: libc.so.6 YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libdl.so.2 YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libm.so.6 YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) YES (db
provides)
D: Requires: rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 YES (rpmlib
provides)
D: Requires: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 YES (rpmlib
provides)
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: ========== recording tsort relations
D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tree,
depth)
D: 0 0 0 0 0 +acroread-5.08-2
D: installing binary packages
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
D: mounted filesystems:
D: i dev bsize bavail iavail mount point
D: 0 0x0303 4096 2754025 1759115 /
D: 1 0x0002 1024 0 -1 /proc
D: 2 0x0007 1024 0 -1 /proc/bus/usb
D: 3 0x0006 1024 0 -1 /dev/pts
D: 4 0x0008 4096 64228 64227 /dev/shm
D: 5 0x0305 32768 1102149 -1 /mnt/D:
D: 6 0x0306 32768 616238 -1 /mnt/E:
D: sanity checking 1 elements
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42
D: read h# 811 Header SHA1 digest: OK
(f06c948df0991b0a59c8857e219e3e8bdc65c21f)
D: computing 78 file fingerprints
Preparing packages for installation...
D: computing file dispositions
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42
         package acroread-5.08-2 is already installed
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages

[root@localhost Acrobat_Reader]# rpm -evv acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0
error: package acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm is not installed
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages



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