Re: rpm not working on fedora core 3 using fresh install

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• Subject: Re: rpm not working on fedora core 3 using fresh install
• From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:05:46 -0500 (CDT)
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> Gang,
>
> I running this line as root " rpm http://apt.kspei.com fedora/3/i386
> kspei", any idea why I have this results:

Because you need to pass an argument to rpm and specify an actual package,
not a directory.  For instance (the following should all be one command):

rpm -i
http://apt.kspei.com/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.kspei/kspei-admin-1.3-1.noarch.rpm

Thomas

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