Re: openoffice

Edward Dekkers wrote:

chen li wrote:

Hi Charles,

Thanks. Nothing  shows up after I followed the command
you suggested.

If I install it this way: rpm -Uvih *.rpm
I got this message: Segmentation fault

If I install it this way: rpm -vih *.rpm

I got the following on the screen and got stuck at 4%
forever.

Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:openoffice.org-core08 ########################################### [ 4%]

Li

I would not expect it to segfault that way, but you are contradicting the arguments.

1> U is for Updating a package.
2> i is for installing a package.
3> v is for verbose output (more messages to the console).
4> h is for the hash marking (progress bar).

So for updating a package I use:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

for installing a package from scratch (like what you should do with kernels) I use:

rpm -ivh *.rpm

I would expect an error in rpm if you use both i and U in the same command as you've done above. A segfault is a bit much and I assume the programmers haven't debugged that parameter combination.

As to why it takes so long, I would rebuild the rpm database and clear the cache files - this smells like an old problem I used to have.

Regards,
Ed.

 rpm {-U|--upgrade} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...

       This upgrades or installs the package currently installed to
       a newer version.   This  is the same as install, except all
       other version(s) of the package are removed after the new
       package is installed.