Re: Install of base system failed --- Why ?

["Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart microlink net>]

Maki Pavlidis whined about Re: Install of base system failed --- Why ?, and I reply:
>On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mathew Anoop V(IAC-BLR) wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I got the following error at the beginning of the install of the RPM
>> packages :
>> 
>> RPM install of basesystem failed: package basesystem-4.9-1 is for a
>> different architecture.
>> 
>> The name of my RPM package is BASESYST.RPM which from the translation table
>> (TRANS.TBL) is basesystem-4.9-1.noarch.rpm (i.e.. it is not an "i386" rpm,
>> is this a problem ?).
>
>Yes, this is definitely the problem!!
>You cannot use these program files if they compiled for use on a non-intel
>system.
>You must download the (sometimes available) source rpm, and then
>compile it yourself, if there is no i386 one available.

No, no, no, no, no! In the RPMS directory of 5.1 (also something
similar is probably in earlier versions) is a file
basesystem-4.9-2.noarch.rpm. I have it installed. I'd bet everyone else
using any RedHat installation has one. A query says it should be
installed first and never (!!!!!!!) be removed.

As for the problem, I dunno. Maybe try renaming it to the original name
just to see if it works OK.

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