On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 17:00, Bradley (FC2 List) wrote: > I couldn't figure out the path on the CD so I copied the rpm to a folder in > / named 'downloads' and used the 'rpm -Uvh' command. I get: preparing 100%, > 1:binutils 100% -then error unpacking of archive failed on file > /usr/bin/gprof: cpio: rename failed -Is a directory. What do you get when you do: ls -ld /usr/bin/gprof Is it a file or a directory? Having a directory there, possibly from a failed attempt at building the package from source earlier, would prevent installation of the RPM. > when using 'rpm -qa | grep binutils' as suggested by Scott Harris, I get no > message. binutils is not installed then. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
