[MLUG] rpm woes

[P at draigBrady.com]

Catherine Ansbro wrote:
> I know RedHat rpm is supposed to be simple, but I'm having problems.  
> I'm using RH 9 (channel i386) When I try to launch the RH Update Agent 
> everything starts fine until it starts checking my system.  Midway 
> through this process it crashes and I get a message saying:
> 
> There was a Fatal RPM Error:  "Error Reading Headers"
> 
> I haven't managed to find any reference to this error message on the RH 
> support, and nothing of help about headers.
I guess there is a problem reading the RPM headers from the
redhat site, rather than anything to do with kernel headers.
I would double check you're settings on rhn.redhat.com.
I have to say I never had any problems with up2date. It just worked.

> Also, I tried updating my up2date program manually from the RH network 
> website.  And I've tried downloading & installing a couple of other 
> packages too, following the instructions from different parts of the RH 
> network website.  Packages are ending up in unexpected places (my home 
> directory, not in /var/spool) and when I put in the command  rpm -Uvh 
> *.rpm (from the relevant folder that has the packages) sometimes it 
> seems that something is happening as from within a terminal it says 
> things were installed successfully.
Only sometimes?

 > But the packages are still remaining
I don't know what you mean by this. The contents of the RPM
files are installed on the system, but the RPM files themselves
are left alone.

> and up2date still doesn't work in any case.
bummer.

Pádraig.