Re: Problem with RH8 up2date

[Michael Fratoni <mfratoni tuxfan homeip net>]

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On Sunday 29 December 2002 10:50 pm, Michael Fratoni wrote:

Just for clarification...

> You can, but you'll need to fix your rpm database after you do.
> Kill the up2date process.
> ps ax | grep up2date
> ps ax | grep rpm
> (Kill any instances of either)
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> (that's 2 underscores __db*)
> rpm --rebuilddb
> # rpm --rebuilddb will take several minutes to finish.
>
> Try running up2date again. It won't download the packages again, it
> will use the one's in /var/spool/up2date/.

Either run up2date again, or install the packages manually, as detailed 
below.

> At this point, you don't need up2date to finish, you can do it from the
> command line.
> cd /var/spool/up2date/
> # Install the kernel package.
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.4*.rpm
> # get the kernel package out of the way..
> mkdir kernel
> mv kernel-2.4*.rpm kernel/
> # or delete it, just get it out of the way.
> # Freshen the other packages.
> rpm -Fvh *.rpm

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