On Thursday 06 February 2003 14:56, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
On Thursday 06 February 2003 03:59, Leendert Meyer wrote:
Synaptic returned: "Error: sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (5)"
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Synaptic came back with "Error: sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (31)"
Uuhhm... You did run synaptic as root, did you?
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Yup. Sometimes starting it from a terminal, using sux - Once from a gnome session, logged in as root (yes, I was getting desperate :-)
I think you should focus on fixing the rpm-database. Use only the repositories with SuSE's "official" files. I guess that would be base, kde, sax2, security, and update (base would be enough after a fresh install of 8.1). I usually do: # apt-get update # apt-get -s upgrade first. "update" will get the package lists from the server, "-s upgrade" will simulate an upgrade. If I'm satisfied with the "simulation", I do: # apt-get upgrade # SuSEconfig Once I had a broken rpm-database too. I've forgotten what I did, but I think I removed the offending packages and started without them. If your rpm-database is well, and apt-get shows no errors, you can add more repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list (be carefull, e.g. with ximian! - rtfm). Cheers, Leen