Re: [TCLUG:618] RedHat RPM

[Michael J Schack <Michael.J.Schack-1@tc.umn.edu>]

What about a rpm --install --force? If that doesn't fire it in, what will?

If that doesn't work, try this address:
http://www.troll.no/dl/qt-1.33.tar.html where you can get the package
ALREADY in tar.gz format! A lib like qt is going to have a tar of it
because it is so mainstream.

--Michael

On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:

> Is there anyway to convert RPM's to Tar files?  And would such a utility
> require another library <rhetorical frustrated question>? Here's the
> situation:
> 
> I've downloaded qt-1.33-1rh5.i386.rpm, which is a special shared library
> that is apparently necessary to use Xamp.  Well going through the
> routine of 
> rpm -ivh qt-1.33-1rh5... seems to install ok, or so I thought.  Doing a
> query on the file indicates that it isn't actually installed.  Now I
> have to use my root account, because my user is non-functional.  I use
> AfterStep 1.4.5.3 as my window manage with the user account.  Several
> Icons are gone, and when I select an app nothing happens.  I cannot
> unload the qt libraries, because rpm indicates they are not actually
> installed. 
> I've searched the site for a tar file, to go through step by step with
> the documentation.  No tar file in site, although the help file uses a
> tar file for the example.   Requested information from the site.  Trying
> to get on the rpm-list at redhat for more info, on rpms.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian Seppanen
> seppanen@pconline.com
> 
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