I was trying to upgrade the Win4Lin upgrade package and did a boo-boo by stopping the rpm install in the middle. Now I need to find out how to recover. I uninstalled the old 2.0 package - all went well. I then followed instructions to install the updated 2.x package with rpm -i. While installing the rpm package I suddenly thought I was in the wrong mode (root vs user) so I hit a control-c in the middle. That sudden thought was both very wrong and very dumb and got me in trouble. I now get the following conflicting reports: rpm -q Win4Lin-5.1.1c.1.i386.rpm gives message package Win4Lin-5.1.1c.1.i386.rpm is not installed and rpm -e Win4Lin-5.1.1c.1.i386.rpm gives message error: package Win4Lin-5.1.1c.1.i386.rpm is not installed but rpm -i Win4Lin-5.1.1c.1.i386.rpm gives message package Win4Lin-5.1.1c.1.i386.rpm is already installed and rpm -U Win4Lin-5.1.1c.1.i386.rpm also gives package Win4Lin-5.1.1c.1.i386.rpm is already installed So the rpm is both installed and not installed. Sounds a little like quantum mechanics doesn't it? I have tried the command rpm -U --force Win4Lin-5.1.1c.1.i386.rpm and it appears to go well, listing a bunch of files mostly as already installed but I still get the conflicting results above. Apparently I have managed to confust the rpm package manager. How to I find out for sure whether the package is installed or not? I'm afraid to actuall RUN Win4lin in this apparently unstable state. The system is Mandrake 7.2 with the pre-compiled Win4lin package. Thanks for any help you can give me Larry Alkoff N2LA _______________________________________________ Win4Lin-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
