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Michael Hipp wrote:
| If you can follow this conversation, could someone tell me why the file
| 'wx-config' immediately becomes an orphan as soon as it is installed?
| What am I missing THIS time?
|
| # ls /usr/bin/wx-config
| /usr/bin/wx-config
| # rpm -e wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1 wxGTK-2.4.2-1
| # ls /usr/bin/wx-config
| ls: /usr/bin/wx-config: No such file or directory
| # rpm -q -f /usr/bin/wx-config
| error: file /usr/bin/wx-config: No such file or directory
| # rpm -i wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm
| # ls /usr/bin/wx-config
| /usr/bin/wx-config
| # rpm -q -f /usr/bin/wx-config
| file /usr/bin/wx-config is not owned by any package
| # rpm -q -f /usr/bin/aspell
| aspell-0.33.7.1-21
|
| (That last one just to be sure I'm typing the command right.)
|
| It's a conspiracy, I tell you, a conspiracy! They're out to make me feel
| stupid. Well, stupider.
|
| Michael
|


Sounds like your rpm isn't built for the distro you're trying to install it on, but something altogether different. Can you properly query the package with rpm -qpl <packagename.rpm> and list the fileset?

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