Ben Barrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>Hmm, maybe see if you're trying to upgrade an existing package, (by
>doing something like 'rpm -qa|grep ftpd') and if so, use the -U option
>for rpm instead of -i.  AFAIK, -U can be used even for installs of new
>packages, so (if that's right) it could/should be used instead of -i
>anytime.  I use -Uvh.
rpm -Uvh wu-ftpd-2.6.2-12.i386.rpm
rpm: relocation error: rpm: undefined symbol: poptAliasOptions
This .rpm is made for redhat 9.0.
If I type "rpm" all by itself I get the same error.

>
>Also:  is this .rpm file made for RedHat 9?  It might be somewhat
>distro-dependent, if not... or maybe there's more cruft left over from
>mandrake.  (You managed to upgrade a mandrake to redhat, using a CD and
>clicking upgrade??  nice, except for the headaches!)
>Also, if worse comes to worse, say if you can determine that there is a
>conflict with the existing package or other ones, remove whatever
>related stuff you can afford to remove, temporarily (rpm -e, but be
>careful, as it does not save backups as it uninstalls), do your install
>or upgrade, and then fix up your package set.  For instance, to upgrade
>from redhat 7.x to 9, I had to remove a TON of packages, since I was
>using a lot of .fr2 (freshrpms) and .ximian (er, Novell) packages which
>made for horrible unresolvable conflicts until I erased all those
>outsourced ones, did the upgrade, then recovered based merely on a saved
>list of packages... my dvd reader still doesn't work again though, wah!
I installed over the top of Mandrake.  I didn't tell it to upgrade.
How would I install rpm if the current rpm program is busted?

>
>regards,
>
>   Ben
>
>
>On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:59:47 +0000
>"Bob Crandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>| Hi,
>|
>| When I type rpm -i wu-ftpd-2.6.2-12.i386.rpm on a brand new Redhat 9.0
>| box I get
>| rpm: relocation error: rpm: undefined symbol: poptAliasOptions
>|
>| This is an upgrade from mandrake 7.2 that didn't go well.
>|
>| help.
>|
>| Thanks
>| Bob
>|
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