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Re: failed rpm upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Heij)
Sun Oct 27 02:28:33 1996
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 16:53:15 +0900
To: Dwight Johnson <djohnson@olympus.net>
Cc: John Heij <johnh@tierzero.apana.org.au>, redhat-list@redhat.com
From: John Heij <johnh@tierzero.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961027001157.2273A-100000@inspire.olympus.net>
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.961027001157.2273A-
100000@inspire.olympus.net>, Dwight Johnson <djohnson@olympus.net>
writes
>On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, John Heij wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to upgrade rpm 2.0.11 with rpm-2_1_.rpm, but I have
>> been unable to succeed as I only get "segmentation fault" error
>> messages. Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this.
>
>It looks like the filename rpm-2_1_.rpm has been corrupted
>because you downloaded it in DOS and then imported it into Linux.
>Very likely the rpm itself is also corrupted during the same
>import.
>
>If you can't download it directly into Linux, someone else will
>have to tell you how to mount your DOS drive so it will import
>correctly.
I did wonder about that, but I have been able to do other rpm upgrades
without any problems. I d/l the rpm upgrade a couple of times as I
thought it might have been corrupted.
John Heij "Only when the last tree has died and the last river
has been poisened and the last fish been caught
will we realise we cannot eat money"
johnh@sa.apana.org.au Cree Indian saying
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