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Re: RPM question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 18 04:42:38 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:43:47 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981117214724.00938e20@cnmailsvr.nmsu.edu>; from Kent R. Frazier on Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 09:51:22PM -0700
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Kent R. Frazier writes:
> The complete error message was:
> error: ispell-3.1.20-9.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> I received this same error message (substituting the package name) with
> other rpm's I tried to install also. It gave me no other information.
The last time this happened to me, the rpm files I just downloaded were
corrupted. This can happen due to a dodgy ftp connection or maybe because
you downloaded the files in ASCII mode rather than binary mode. I'd try
to download one of the files again and try to install that and see what
happens.
HTH,
Thomas
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