Thanks for the help Mike, but that didn't help me either. Sure wish I knew
what the problem was. Would really hate to reinstall LM yet again on this
machine to fix it.
Terry
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 18:56, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2001 09:07, you wrote:
> I had the same problem with Software Manager telling me things were already
> installed and I tried the rpm --rebuilddb with no luck then I tried rpm
> --rebuilddb then ran updatedb right after and went back to Software Manager
> and it worked again. Dont know why but it worked for me try it and see if
> it helps. I ran them in console not from KDE or Gnome. Good luck.
>
> > Thanks for the answers, but I have tried those, and they still don't have
> > any effect on Software Manager. Things work just fine at the command
> > line, just not in Software Manager. If I try to use
> >
> > rpm -e <packagename>
> >
> > from the command line, it just tells me that the package is not installed
> > on this system. Software Manager is being very peculiar. Anyone else
> > come across this sort of problem?
> >
> > Terry
> >
> > On Tuesday 22 May 2001 16:38, you wrote:
> > > first use
> > >
> > > rpm --rebuilddb
> > >
> > > then if you still have a report that packages are installed, try
> > >
> > > rpm -e <packagename> for each one
> > >
> > > and then use the software manager.
> > >
> > > Civileme
