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Re: RPM doesn't work with Glint?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Sat Nov 2 00:55:08 1996
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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 00:52:26 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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>Glint runs fine at first. It does querrying and everything dealing
>with installed files fine. But when I try to look at what is available
>(either off cd or upgrades I've downloaded) I get this error:
>
>only packages with major numbers <= 2 are supported by this version of RPM
>
>over and over (probably once for each package). I then get the error
>box that says there are no RPMs in that directory. On top of this,
>when checking the directory where I keep my updates (rather than the cd),
>it proceeds to crash just before bring up this error box.
>
>Ok. I remember seeing this error before. I think it was when I was
>trying to install rpms packages with 2.0.11 when they had been
>packaged with 2.2.x. But now I am using rpm-2.2.7. Besides, rpm
>works fine from the command prompt.
>
>I am using glint-2.1.4-1.
glint doesn't exec RPM, it has it built in from pythonlib. You
need to update glint, python, and pythonlib.
>While I'm here, I might as well ask the question I was trying to use
>glint to find out. What package contains the necessary progs to make
>the /proc/net/ip_acct process. I went to use xosview the other day and
>got this error:
>
>Can not open file : /proc/net/ip_acct
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>I checked and sure enough, there was no /proc/net/ip_acct. Any thoughts?
It's not in a package. You need IP Accounting built into your
kernel.
--Donnie
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