Thanks Ingo, especially for the promptness of your reply. Your suggestion worked, but unfortunately I always find that a solution with Linux just leads me to the next problem. rpm -q says that it is installed - but where? From the root I do a find on *xemacs and get a little, a find on emacs* gave me 23 hits, a repeat of find on emacs* gave me 67 hits but in no way have I found any executable files. I noticed a lot of emacs/gnome stuff. I am only using kde: is this a problem? Thanks for any help. Regards, Colin PS: I was chastised for posting this question under 'programming' (I thought that emacs was a developer's tool) and told I should post here. On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:07, Ingo Strauch wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:58:33 +1100
Colin Carter <colincarter@exemail.com.au> wrote:
After completing the task I now get the following responses to quiery and install:
# rpm -q xemacs-info-21.4.15-43.x86_64.rpm package xemacs-info-21.4.15-43.x86_64.rpm is not installed
The _package_ name is xemacs-info-21.4.15-43. It does _not_ include the architecture (x86_64) or the suffix rpm.
Try
rpm -q xemacs-info-21.4.15-43
# rpm -i xemacs-info-21.4.15-43.x86_64.rpm package xemacs-info-21.4.15-43.x86_64.rpm is already installed
Here you are not dealing with the _package_ name but the name of the _rpm_. That's the difference and the cause for confusion.
Hope that helps, Ingo
P.S.: it's basically the wrong mailinglist for such a question, this one is dedicated to the X graphical system. Can't say which list would be better suited unfortunately. In fact after the site relaunch SuSE -> Novell I can't find any mailinglist information at all...