[ILUG] rpm

[O'Flanagan Justine]

Hello all

I'm an Oracle DBA trying to administer an ancient Linux box and get it up to
speed to cope with some of the newer Oracle software.  I'm not very au fait
with Linux and would appreciate your advice.

The Oracle installer has advised me that a number of rpm packages on my
Linux system (kernel 2.4.9-e3.smp which I think is 7.2 AS running on Intel
i686 architecture) need to be updated.  So I faithfully go out to
rpmfind.net and get some of the required packages.

I have been trying to run rpm -i, rpm -U, rpm --freshen followed by package
name, but when I query back the package version number, it simply remains
unchanged. Worse, I de-installed one package, then tried a new install of
it, and now it shows "not installed" (please see example below).

What should I be doing to get these things upgraded?

Thanks a million
Justine

Eg:
[root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}  (%{ARCH})\n'
pdksh 
pdksh-5.2.14-13 (i386)
[root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -ev pdksh
[root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}  (%{ARCH})\n'
pdksh 
package pdksh is not installed
[root at rhubarb tmp]# ls -alrt pdksh*.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       494256 Aug 31 10:47
pdksh-5.2.14-30.3.src.rp
m
[root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -ivh pdksh-5.2.14-30.3.src.rpm
   1:pdksh                  ###########################################
[100%]
[root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}  (%{ARCH})\n'
pdksh 
package pdksh is not installed