On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 08:55, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
Hi,
I was installing an rpm
What rpm? And I'm left to assume you did this from the command line as "root"?
that said it required popt - not having a suse disc with me I d'l a popt rpm and installed it with rpm.
Did you "force" it? If so, go to ["Plan B"] ["Plan A"] IF you installed popt **without objections from rpm** to satisfy the dependency, and IF you then proceeded to install the first package and it installed **without objections**: did you remember to "ldconfig" and then "SuSEconfig" afterwards?
Since then yast will not run. Text mode errors out with the fact that the ncurses is installed but not working properly and that I need to install yas2-ncurses. Graphical mode wont run at all.
["Plan B" - see "info rpm" or "man rpm"] De-install the two rpm's. Verify/rebuild the rpm database. Download ncurses and YaST (many rpm's; avoid unwanted languages.) Isolate the rpm's in a single directory. Test installation with rpm using the "--test" option. If they'll install **without objections** -- go for it. If rpm indicates more files are needed, download them into the same directory and try again -- until they'll install **without objections from rpm.** And don't forget to finish with "ldconfig" and "SuSEconfig".
Problem is that without yast I do not seem to be able to correct the problem.
Any suggestions much appreciated.
I've just told you how *I* would tackle this problem, *but*: -->I'm on 9.0 not 9.1 It might be a good idea to wait and study a number of responses here before jumping in and proceeding with my approach. The really smart people on this list might address something I'm not aware of that is unique to 9.1 Good luck & regards, - Carl