From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Medwid Subject: RPM Qs Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:33:34 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: Michael Medwid Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I have had spotty success in loading RPMs from say here: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386 One common error is I click on one of the RPMs via FireFox and it goes through "Preparing System Update" and ends up with "Package Not Found". About half the time that happens and half the time it actually installs. e.g. I was able to load SNORT without any problem. Can someone comment on why I am seeing that specific error when I'm downloading the RPM directly from fedora.redhat.com? Also can you point me to how to go about trouble-shooting this kind of thing myself? Where would I find a log of what happened during the installation? Also where are the binary files typically installed? usr/bin? user/sbin? And lastly when loading an RPM - should the package become launchable in the Gnome UI (as happens with most Windows applications)? Or is that typically an extra step? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs