On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:43:05 -0500, Beartooth wrote: > > My apologies for butting into this list, 99 44/100% of > which is far over my head! > > I have *just* kicked MonkeySoft off my back. I had been > running RH 7.2 for most of a year on a second hard drive; this past > weekend at an installfest I had the good fortune to find people who > could remove the original W98 drive (which now goes to the firing > range <grin>) and replace it with one on which RH 8.0 is installed. > > The first things I want to do to start shifting over are to > get Opera and Pan up and running on it. I haven't even found a > variety of Pan to try yet; I did try Opera, with very discouraging > results. > > I thought I had installed Opera -- it opened, and handled > two or three tabs, only to disappear. That was the shorter, shared > version, which I had presumed 8.0 could handle. > > So I decided to download the static version, uninstall the > shared, and ... -- but bogged down. > > RH 8.0 seems to think I both had and had not installed the > shared. I tried to uninstall it; when I got the result of rpm -e, I > took it at face value, supposed the app to've somehow opened > uninstalled -- which might explain its crashing -- and tried to > install with -ivh. > > NOTE: to get the -ivh command, I hit up arrow till, sure > enough, despite the result of -e, I hit one with -Uvh; then I > switched the U for i, making no other change, and hit enter. > > ========================== > [root@localhost rhn]# cd /home/btth > [root@localhost btth]# ls > opera-6.11-20021129.1-static-qt.i386.rpm > opera-6.11-20021129.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm > [root@localhost btth]# rpm -e > opera-6.11-20021129.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm > error: package opera-6.11-20021129.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm is not > installed > [root@localhost btth]# rpm -ivh > opera-6.11-20021129.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm > Preparing... > (########################################### [100%] > package opera-6.11-20021129.4 is already installed > [root@localhost btth]# > =========================== > > So how do I get my good fast handy browser?? Well, first of all Pan is a newsreader and it comes with 8.0. If it's not installed, just install it from the CD or get the latest version from http://pan.rebelbase.com. The latest stable version is 0.13.2 and the latest beta is 0.13.2.92. When you do "rpm -e", you just want to use the package name as opposed to the name of the rpm file. If there's just one version installed, then "rpm -e opera" should get rid of it. The same thing is true if you're querying installed packages. The only time you specify the rpm file is when you're installing a package or querying the rpm file: rpm -Uvh foo.rpm rpm -q foo rpm -qi foo rpm -qip foo.rpm If you have some version installed, rpm -ivh will install the new version without removing the old one; rpm -Uvh will remove the old one and install the new one. Did you get an 8.0 version of opera? If you want to install the static version, you should be able to do: rpm -e opera rpm -Uvh opera-6.11-20021129.1-static-qt.i386.rpm -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
