--- "Christopher K. Johnson" <ckjohnson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Globe Trotter wrote: > > >I get the following: I am not sure what it means -- I am really confused > >because netpbm is installed. > > > > > ># rpm -V $(rpm -qf $(which xplanet)) > >package /usr/local/bin/xplanet is not installed > >package is is not installed > >package not is not installed > >package owned is not installed > >package by is not installed > >package any is not installed > >package package is not installed > > > > > > > $(which xplanet) yielded "/usr/local/bin/xplanet" > $(rpm -qf /usr/local/bin/xplanet) yielded "/usr/local/bin/xplanet is not > owned by any package" > So the final command was: rpm -V /usr/local/bin/xplanet is not owned by > any package > Which of course tried to verify each whitespace delimited package name, > yeilding all the claims that those packages are not installed. > > Looks like perhaps xplanet was not installed using rpm. You will have > to provide more details about how you installed xplanet... > No, I did. I must say that I had mistakenly used the rpm commands on the .src.rpm as follows: rpm -Uvh xplanet-maps-1.0-2.fr.src.rpm rpm -Uvh xplanet-1.0.8-1.1.fc2.fr.src.rpm the realizing what I had done, removed it, using: rpm -e xplanet-maps rpm -e xplanet and then gone and installed the i386 rpms from freshrpms: rpm -Uvh xplanet-1.0.8-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm xplanet-maps-1.0-2.fr.noarch.rpm warning: xplanet-1.0.8-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:xplanet-maps ########################################### [ 50%] 2:xplanet ########################################### [100%] What should I do? Many thanks, and best wishes! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
