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Re: Can't upgrade to pam-0.50-21.i386.rpm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric S. Pulley)
Sun Nov 3 21:59:36 1996

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 18:56:16 -0800
From: "Eric S. Pulley" <pulley@dabus.com>
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On Sun, 03 Nov 1996 13:07:21 -0800  BORG wrote:

> Jeremie Kass wrote:
> > 
> > Nope: something is wrong with the package file sizes, even though I just
> > redownloaded it from ftp.redhat.com:
> > 
> > [root@kitch2 upgrades]# rpm -U --force --nodeps -vv pam-0.50-21.i386.rpm
> > D: counting packages to install
> >.......
> > 
> > Anyone know what's really wrong?
> 

I had the same problem.  Found out that I had D/L The rpm as UID 500(pulley) 
so the rpm had the wrong file permitions.  Change the ownership to root:root 
and see if that works... It did for me.

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