Re: [newbie] rpm install failures

[John Richard Smith]

Derek Jennings wrote:

On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:57 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:

I am trying to update a printer driver, having removed the old ones.

[root@localhost root]# rpm -i --force
/mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/libgimpprint1-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm
/mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/libgimpprint1-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm: read
manifest failed: Success
[root@localhost root]#


why won't it install the package ?

I have to install 3 packages,
libgimpprint1-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm
libgimpprint1-devel-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm
gimpprint-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm
in this order, I think.

John

I assume you realise that these are Cooker packages, and --forcing them to install will very likely break your system?

No. I take it that this is why the install was refused then.

If you really really want to use gimpprint-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm instead of gimpprint-4.2.3-3.2mdk as available in the latest Mandrake 9.0 Updates,

Then how does one know which packages to download.

then the safest way of doing it is to download the .src.rpm and recompile it for your system with
rpm --rebuild gimpprint-4.2.3-5mdk.src.rpm

I couldn't find any src.rpm versions, rpmfind didn't come up with any.

Then, libgimpprint1-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm
libgimpprint1-devel-4.2.3-5mdk.i586.rpm
are these also cooker jobs.

because these libgimpprint are the actual drivers, gimpprint is just a graphical front end and
it's the libgimpprint driver files that are broken
in M9.0 standard install versions.

John

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