[PLUG] rpm woes

Bruce Kingsland brucek at kingkon.com
Fri Nov 7 17:58:01 UTC 2003


trying to summarize

I want to install quanta. It needs some qt lib that I don't have, and
haven't sorted out how to get. I decided to break down and install
apt-get so that it can sort out what I need to get quanta working.

apt installs, and I run apt-get update. It runs off and gets lotsa
stuff, and then informs me that I have two versions of rpm, and I need
to remove the old one in order for apt-get to work properly.

I run:

  rpm -qa > pkgsIgot
  sort < pkgsIgot > sortedPkgs
  grep rpm sortedPkgs > rpmPkgs

cat rpmPkgs:

  rpm2html-1.7-3.7x
  rpm-4.0.3-1.03
  rpm-4.0.4-7x
  rpm-build-4.0.4-7x
  rpmdb-redhat-7.2-0.20010924
  rpm-devel-4.0.4-7x
  rpmfind-1.7-4.7x
  rpmlint-0.32-4
  rpm-perl-4.0.4-7x
  rpm-python-4.0.3-1.03
  rpm-python-4.0.4-7x

I run rpm erase with typescript:

  Script started on Fri Nov  7 13:01:37 2003
  [root at auger whatHere]# rpm -e rpm-4.0.3-1.03.i386.rpm
  error: package rpm-4.0.3-1.03.i386.rpm is not installed
  [root at auger whatHere]# ^D
  Script done on Fri Nov  7 13:02:00 2003

Now, I'm confused. The query says it's there, but it can't be
uninstalled. I also ran "rpmdb --rebuilddb" (syntax?) to be sure that
the db was correct, and re-ran the above sequence, and got the same
results. How do I fix this confusion so that I can get on with my
original task (getting quanta installed)?

Thanx!
-bk
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