On Friday 19 January 2001 11:14, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2001 14:44, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> OK, I'll answer this myself. I've been using update from the cooker
> installer, assuming that if an RPM updates it throws away the previous
> version. But no - I had _THREE_ versions of lilo installed. Deleting the
> earlier versions and reinstalling the latest cured the problem.
>
> I then searched for other duplicates and found these:
> libgimp-devel, libglib*-devel, htdig, bash1, XFree86-100dpi-fonts,
> XFree86-75dpi-fonts, fdutils, libSDL_image, libSDL_mixer and libgal. There
> may be more - it's hard to tell with so many packages being renamed with 0,
> 1, etc. at the end.
The easiest way I've found to search for duplicates is:
# rpm -qa | sort | less
> So there is either something else wrong with the installer or with the
> scripts for these packages. Please investigate, Mandrake.
It happens whenever one of the scripts fails. For example, I've got 3
versions of ucd-snmp because I don't start it up. The script can't turn it
off (or doesn't find the right startup file) so it doesn't de-install it,
even though rpm said it's installed.
I've seen quite a few cases of Mandrake (and Redhat) installs getting it
wrong with regards to what is enabled or not before the install and after.
I'm currently exchanging e-mail with Mandrake about ssh since it gets
disabled following an install, even if it was enabled before. I've seen
other earlier cases where bind gets turned off.
Cheers,
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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