On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 16:16 +0300, Aizer Danny-BDA023 wrote: > I'm trying to install an rpm package on a new embedded system. > The RPM db is empty, and the rpm version is 4.0 (for Monta Vista Linux 2.4.18_mvl30). > > The installation fails without any message/error: > > # rpm -qa > # rpm -i --nodeps /sm/bin/installer-1.00-20.rpm Why are you installing with nodeps? > Still not installed, so trying with --noscripts: > > # rpm -i --nodeps --noscripts /sm/bin/installer-1.00-20.rpm > # rpm -qa > installer-1.00-20 > # > Installed... but without running my scripts (pre and post install scripts exist, they only do an echo of some string)... Withouth knowledge of the package, install system and the particular scripts we can't really comment rpm --scripts -qp /sm/bin/installer-1.00-20.rpm rpm -qpR /sm/bin/installer-1.00-20.rpm > Any idea why this could happen? Can't RPM find the shell? Or something else? Does /bin/sh exist? Paul
