Thank you Tim! It was getting a bit lonely here... ;<}
The directory structure is as follows. Everything is in my /share
folder (/share is exported, so if this ever gets straightened out, I can
install on the other machine on my network). /share contains
/installer-i386 (the installer program)
/channels.xml.gz
/licenses.xml.gz
/installer
/products.xml.gz
/xd2-redhat73-components.xml.gz
/xd2
/redhat-73-i386
/packageinfo.xml.gz
/(349 .rpm files)
/ximian-evolution
/redhat-73-i386
/packageinfo.xml.gz
/(47 .rpm files)
/redcarpet
/redhat-73-i386
/packageinfo.xml.gz
/(19 .rpm files)
That folder structure is exactly as Ximian, on the Q&A section of their
Web site, state is required to install from local media.
Regarding the error message, it struck me that the http:// shouldn't
have been there when the gnucash .rpm was right there on my disk. I
wondered whether somehow changing the setting of a proxy server would
work, but I was afraid of breaking something important. (I don't use a
proxy server - have a 2 machine peer-to-peer network linked by a switch
and linked to the 'net through a firewall/DSL router and Jetstream.)
I gave a munged reply-to address when I joined the list but the list
software seems to have munged it further. My address is ampacker1 at
clear dot net dot nz. (Writing it this way to try to confuse the
spammers' harvester robots.)
=====Andrew
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 22:11, Tim Wright wrote:
> Bloody hell...this is my third attempt trying to reply to this - for some
> reason the CLUG mailing list software wasn't rewriting the reply-to header
> correctly (I think there was one already there) and my reply was bouncing
> every time. This time I'm being paranoid. My reply is below...
>
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Andrew Packer wrote:
>
> > Couldn't verify signatures: couldn't prepare package signature: unable
> > to open
> >
> > /share/http://rc-pkginfo.ximian.com/redhat-73-i386/redhat-73-i386/gnucash-1.6.6-3.i386.rpm:
> > unable to open
> > /share/http://rc-pkginfo.ximian.com/redhat-73-i386/redhat-73-i386/gnucash-1.6.6-3.i386.rpm
> >
> > (sorry the formatting here may be hard to read). I couldn't find
>
> hmm, noone else has replied to this, so I'm going to give it a go.
>
> The extra '/'s in the pathname might be stuffing things up. Can you post
> the exact command you used to try to install the rpms, and the exact
> directory that the rpms are installed in?
>
> Your problem might be solved by simply moving the rpms to a different
> directory.
>
> Tim Wright
>
> Assistant Lecturer
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Canterbury
>
> "Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to
> effect political change."
>
> -- "Collateral Language" John Collins and Ross Glover ed.
