On Monday 09 July 2001 18:27, Maxim Heijndijk wrote:
> * Stardate: 2001-07-09 17:47
>
> * Incoming subspace signal from "DStevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" :
> > I am having a nightmare with the RPM system.
> > For example...trying to install the RPM for Wine. I have downloaded the
> > latest version from web. I click on the RPM and rpminst tells me that the
> > packages are already installed. Emhh. I did not install them, so the
> > Mandrake install must have. I locate wine, which finds a handful of
> > *wine* files. So, I try to uninstall the wine from the mandrake software
> > manager...sorry can't do that, RPM database does not have wine installed.
> > I can install it, but then rpminst telles me that it is already
> > installed.
> > So...I cannot uninstall it, nor can I install it. Catch22. Does anyone
> > have any ideas. I've tried using the command:
> > rpm -i codeweavers-wine-20010305-1.rpm
> > but this tells me I need to run a command to upgrade my database to db3,
> > whatever that may be.
> > Help please...thanks.
> > Dave
>
> Do you know about 'rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force
> codeweavers-wine-20010305-1.rpm' ?
>
> Try it !
Thanks for all the suggestions. I got the ictl installed using the force
option, after that, I used the command above to install wine. This went thru
with an error message but did complete. Software manager still says in GUI
that ictl and wine are not installed, although having found the Gnome rpm
manager, this says they are installed. I can use wine however, only tried it
on notepad...but thats another thread.
Is there any explanation to this diff in package managers ???
