On Tuesday 07 October 2003 7:25 pm, someone claiming to be Michael Hipp wrote: > Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong, or is RPM a Microsoft > conspiracy to make Linux look bad: > > # rpm --rebuilddb > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy > # ls > wxGTK-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm > wxGTK-devel-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm > # rpm -i wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm > package wxGTK-2.4.2-1 is already installed > # rpm -e wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm > error: package wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm is not installed > # rpm -i wxGTK-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm (note the version change) > package wxGTK-2.4.2-1 (which is newer than wxGTK-2.4.1-1) is > already installed > > Hoping I'm doing something really dumb ...
rpm --rebuildb shouldn't error out like that. What's 'ps -ax|grep rpm' tell you? And, yes, Brett's right, lose the .i386.rpm, 'rpm -e wxGTK-2.4.2-1' is all you need. rpm wants to remove by package name, and it told you what that was when it said "package wxGTK-2.4.2-1 is already installed" Regards, Tim -- RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20-20.8, KDE 3.1.3, Xfree86 4.2.1 7:40pm up 2 days, 21:32, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.35, 0.23 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
