Re: SOMEBODY PLEASE ANSWER!! rpm says package is both installed and not installed

[Stephen Smoogen <smooge redhat com>]

I have replied once before, but it doesnt seem to have gotten posted. Try
the following:

rpm -Uvh --force kernel-headers*

If the files that it is complaining about are there, then it might be that
the msql rpm was "mis-built"

rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps msql* 

should install the "damn" thing.


If that doesnt work, then we will probably have to rebuild the database
and remove the kernel-headers and then re-install it.


On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Mario Heilmann wrote:

> I sent this before, but got no answer.   I am grounded becasue I cannot
> install what I need.
> 
>  
> I try to install msql.  It fails because of missing .h files that are in
> the kernel-header rpm package.
> 
> if I install kernel-header it says it is installed, cannot be installed.
> 
> If I try rpm -V it says kernel-header is NOT installed.  I tried uninstall
> (does not work), --force (still the same contradictory messages, does not
> fix the situation)
> 
> Next try: I get the more recent version of kernel-headers from the 4.2
> distribution.  Is this a problem???  Can I install certain modules from 4.2
> into my 4.1 distribution??  Should I download the entire 4.2 distribution
> (I would rather not)
> 
> 
>  
> Also, advice for installation of perl moduless, especially for
> database/mSQL, installation of mSQL and PHP is more than welcome.  I guess
> there is no rpm for this, it needs to be instaled the standard way??
>  
> I believe when I installed RedHat 4.1, I did not install the development C
> files.  Now all installations fail, I slowly install missing
> kernel-headers, c development libraries.  Any standard install that gets
> all these things at once??
> 
> 
> 
> Mario Heilmann
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> 
> Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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