On Saturday 20 January 2001 01:16, andre wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 January 2001 00:26, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Thanks Ed. I feel more confident about using the installer now I know
> > what's causing the duplicates. I'll do an `rpm -qa | sort | less` after
> > each install now.
>
> I think you mean a packages update and not an install but.. . But don't you
> see it when an install goes wrong. If you use rpm -Fvh or Mandrakeupdate
> from the command-line you see an error-messages. And to get ride of
> multipules just do an rpm -e --noscripts
> packages-name-with-the-old-complete-name-without-the-rpm-bit
>
> Say if you have package-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> and package-1-2mdk.i586.rpm
> installed
> do rpm -e --noscripts package-1-1mdk
André,
I agree, but I was updating cooker from hd.img, choosing update rather than
install, using the gui installer. I don't see those messages then - that's
the problem.
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KDE 2.1beta -- almost fit for production machines.
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