Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2348 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Thursday 2008-04-03 at 12:38 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Dave Plater <> wrote:
> > vavai # zypper in rpm
> > Reading installed packages...
> >
> > The following package is going to be upgraded:
> >   rpm
> >
> >
> > The following NEW package is going to be installed:
> >   perl-base
> >
> >
> > The following package is going to be REMOVED:
> >   rpm
> >
> >
> > Overall download size: 2.6 M. After the operation, additional 729.0 K
> > will be used.
> > Continue? [YES/no]: y
>
> I'm really wondering what sane user would ever say YES to THIS 
> question... Is like if the sustem aks you for permission to 
> selfdestruct... as it's a question, let's reply with YES?? Sorry.. I 
> would say you had rather some luck that perl-base failed in first 
> instance... otherwise you'd probably have ended up with a system without 
> rpm installed on it... tough luck to install anything else.. even using 
> zypper, as zypper just relies on rpm in the background.

Why? It is going to remove rpm and install rpm, ie, it is going to upgrade 
rpm. That's correct. The problem is that it wants to install perl before.

> What you can try is to download rpm from the factory repository manually and 
> install it using rpm -Fhv rpm-4*.rpm

Probably the easiest way.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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