Re: OT? Rhas 3.0 rpm quandary
- From: Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: boivinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:37:03 -0500
Patrice,
Select the user-verified checkbox and check it (in OUI).
I also had installed 10g on RHEL 3.0 ES Update 2 (=> current)
which had a newer version of OpenMotif.
It didn't cause any issues, but then again, I didn't use Enterprise Manager.
Paul
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:28:22 -0400, Boivin, Patrice J
<boivinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I ran into a pl/sql exception problem on the em10g main screen, after over
> two weeks back and forth with Metalink I decided to reinstall everything.
>
> I re-installed rhas 3.0 es on the server, applied package updates.
>
> Applied the oui patch.
>
> Started installing em10g.
>
> The oui is not happy, it warns me about the openmotif package. It can't
> find the version it is looking for.
>
> It turns out that the version I have on my machine is newer than what em10g
> is looking for. There are some metalink notes about openmotif versions and
> reports, I don't know if this applies to em10g.
>
> I tell the gui applications add/remove tool to deinstall openmotif, then to
> reinstall it. It reinstalls the new version instead of the original, older
> version from CD.
>
> I go to a terminal window, use rpm -e to deinstall openmotif, then rpm -q
> openmotif to see if it's gone -- it is gone.
>
> I copy the original openmotif version from cd3 to local disk, then use rpm
> -ivh to install the openmotif (old version). Rpm says that openmotif (newer
> version number) is already on the machine. Yet when I do rpm -q it tells me
> openmotif is not installed.
>
> I tried rpm -U; rpm --force; nothing seems to work.
>
> No info on the Red Hat site, they seem to have just copied and pasted
> passages from the rpm.org site.
>
> Has anyone run into this before? What do you do when rpm is confused?
>
> I suspect there is an entry somewhere that mentions the new version of
> openmotif, but when I de-installed the package that didn't get cleaned.
>
> I am about do search the whole hard disk to find any file that mentions the
> new version number... If that fails I will probably reinstall, I'm getting
> good at that now...
>
> Patrice.
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