On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:28:30 -0700 (PDT), Globe Trotter wrote: > --- "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 This is wrong. src.rpm files are not installed like binary rpms. They are extracted only. You cannot "-e" (erase) them like binary rpms since they never make it into the RPM database. They are extracted to %_sourcedir, which by default is below /usr/src/redhat for the root user. > 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? No, Christopher's observation is entirely right. At some point you compiled and installed an xplanet version for source tarball into /usr/local/bin. As written earlier, delete the binary in there. Look for other xplanet files below /usr/local. You want to delete them too to save space.
