Andrewski Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 I'm trying to install some RPMs of a recent devel snapshot of evolution. (Yeah, the features in 1.5.6 are worth the trouble.) Problem is, when I try to install the libgtkhtml3.1_7-3.1.11.0.200404121814-0.snap.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm, I get the following error: root:evo1.5.6$ urpmi libgtkhtml3.1_7-3.1.11.0.200404121814-0.snap.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm unable to register rpm file Everything already installed And, uh, everything is not already installed... decidedly. I googled and saw that there was an old 9.1 error with MCC that had this problem. I'm running 10.0, freshly installed from the discs; what's the cause of my error? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 There are several updates for the tools, including urpmi. So that is what I would guess to be the trouble. I would do urpmi updates first, and then anything with "drake" in the name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted April 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 I did them, sorry I didn't mention it. Yeah, urpmi updated, as well as 400megs or so of other things. Still no go on the install though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 Well, mkae sure you're typing the file name correctly because I get that when I can't type! (which is always!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted April 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 /me almost always uses tab-completion for exactly this reason. You think I typed out all those numbers?! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 OK, something else I have done is being in the wrong directory so that urpmi could not see the file. Are you installing manually or off a source? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 (edited) I never saw that error message so it made me feel curious; this is what I've found in google (just quoting one of the very few results I've got): From http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/announce...04/msg00009.php MandrakeClub users use a special downloading mechanism involving HTTP redirection with authentication. There is a problem in the downloading backend using in 9.1 (the curl program) which prevents the redirection from happening correctly. Under urpmi, users experiencing this problem see the error message "unable to register rpm file. Everything already installed" when trying to install a package (a workaround is to force the use of wget, or use the redirection (the URL beginning with https://) directly). Under rpmdrake, the error message is "The signature of the package is not correct; Could not read lead bytes". There is no workaround in rpmdrake. I don't know if you are a club member and if this applies to you, but might yield some light to you ;) Edited April 13, 2004 by aru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted April 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 aru, thanks for the reply. I saw that article also and made vague mention to it in my initial post. I'm not a club member. I'm also not using 9.1 and I'm installing from disk, so I didn't think any of that was applicable. At the same time (to answer Ixthusdan's question), I'm installing from disk and am definitely in the right folder. I posted a message on the evolution mailing list, so maybe they'll be able to help. This error baffles me...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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