Can you post an ls -l of /var/lib/rpm/
Garl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Crandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:18 PM
> To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list
> Subject: Re: [eug-lug]RPM woes
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> 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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