Subject: RE: 0.7.11: "cannot be installed"
From: Uncle Meat (kcsmart@worldinter.net)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 07:49:12 CDT
On 17-Sep-2000 David Shochat spoke something to the effect:
> I have downloaded the Linux RPM twice now seemingly to completion (many
> attempts aborted at 1 Mb or so) and both times I get the following:
>
># ls -l abi*.rpm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 david users 4203709 Sep 17 06:32
> abisuite-0.7.11-1.i386.rpm
># rpm -Uvh abisuite-0.7.11-1.i386.rpm
> error: abisuite-0.7.11-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed
># rpm -qpl abisuite-0.7.11-1.i386.rpm
> query of abisuite-0.7.11-1.i386.rpm failed
>
> which makes me think the RPM is corrupt. However, when I do rpm -qpi
> against the URL, I don't get an error, making me think the one on the
> web site is ok. Has anyone successfully installed this RPM, and if so
> can you check the file size for me? Maybe I just need to download it yet
> again. Is there a mirror site? The official download site seems to be
> overloaded.
The problem is the rpm. I've downloaded it several times and get the same
problem. Someone else also sent it in as a bug (it's in the listing).
-- A closed mouth gathers no feet.
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