If I am reading this right Michael, there's a couple things you can do, you can type:
rpm -ivh Real and hit tab and let the console do autocompletion for the filename, this way there is no chance of mistyping the filename. If you have a console open in a gui like KDE, you can type "rpm -ivh ", highlight the filename and if you have a three button or scroll mouse you can hit the middle button (or wheel button) to paste. To do this you have to mouse over the area you want to paste the text to and then click. Alternatively, if you only have a two button mouse you would click both the right and left mouse buttons at the same time to emulate a third mouse button click. Hope that makes sense. It's a pretty handy trick that I use all the time. The autocompletion thing is great though, the only caveat there is that if you have more than one filename that matches what you have typed before you hit tab then it will complete up to where the filename is the same so for example: you have the following two files: RealPlayer-0.4.0.186-20040615.i586.rpm RealPlayer-0.4.0.186-20040310.i586.rpm typing "rpm -ivh Real" will autocomplete to: RealPlayer-0.4.0.186-20040 adding a 6 to the end of that text string and hitting tab will get you the file you want. You will of course have to hit enter to execute the RPM command. I'm not sure if this is consistent between all shells, I am using BASH. Jarrod ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Walters Sent: 8/9/2004 2:11:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [clug-talk] tried to install RealPlayer > Hello All, > > I noticed that the file name I typed in to install had a number of errors > including not capitalizing R and P in RealPlayer and having one to many ones > in .1186- (should have been .186-). > > So I logged in as root and went to my Dl directory and saw in red letters > "RealPlayer-0.4.0.186-20040615.i586.rpm" which was the file name of the file > I downloaded to my Dl directory. I then typed in "rpm -ivh > RealPlayer-0.4.0.186-20040615.i586.rpm" and got the error message: "error: > can not open Packagesindex using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: > can not open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm". > > Is there a way of highlighting the file name to get it without errors and > typing it in ahead of the filename the command "rpm -ivh "? In other words > rmp -ivh <highlighted file name>? > > I am thinking that perhaps I make subtle errors in the file name that could be > eliminated by highlighting the file name that is in red letters and plunking > it down after the command rpm -ivh. > > I am running a libranet debian linux desktop. > > Thank you in advance, > > Michael Walters > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
