You can get rpms from a few places.. one is nyquist rpms (apt-repo.. not sure of exact url.. people.escs something like that)
or you can get it from www.planetmirror.com/pub/ That's actually one of the mirrors that the ximian installer gets the files from.. Cheers, Mun Heng, Ow H/M Engineering Western Digital M'sia DID : 03-7870 5168 -----Original Message----- From: Patrick O'Callaghan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:05 AM To: Todd Cary Cc: Jeffrey Stedfast; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Evolution] Upgrading Evolution On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 16:31, Todd Cary wrote: > Patrick - > > I forgot to check the privileges! They are correct: rw,r,r (I need to > learn the octal equivalents). However, I did change the owner but > that made no difference - as expected. On my machine the modes are 644 (rw,r,r) and owner root, and I don't have any difficulty. You might want to check the mode on the directory itself, just in case. Mine is: drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 1024 Sep 26 09:40 /var/lib/rpm/ > Also, I did "ps - A | grep "rpm". > > Hmmmmm....is there a way to run the rpm manually? I am using > > wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com|sh You could just copy the output of wget: wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com > foo and then poke around in foo to see what's going on. poc > Todd > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > rpm can sometimes leave its database in a locked state, even > > when no processes are active on it. If this happens, I've found > > that the following works for me (as superuser): > > > > rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00? > > > > (the files will be recreated next time rpm runs). > > > > YMMV of course ... > > > > poc > > > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:32, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > > sounds like your rpm database is locked by another process. you'll have > > > to kill that other process I guess. *shrug* > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 09:41, Todd Cary wrote: > > > > > > > When Ximian attempts to install a new version, it almosts gets to the > > > > end, but this error comes up: > > > > > > > > Sep 26 12:41:28 Transaction failed: Unable to complete RPM transaction: > > > > unable to open RPM database: fcntl failed > > > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > > > Todd > > > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
