fooling psyche

[Basil Fowler]

Hi,

This looks like a job for Superman aka the command line.

Graphical tools are OK if the circumstances are standard, if not, as you have 
discovered, you are in trouble.  Personally, I have never used kpackage or 
other graphical installers - they are too much trouble - especially when 
thing have gone wrong. 

Try this:

Open a terminal.

Run the command 'man -t rpm | lpr'

This will print out (beautifully) a complete set of instructions on how to use 
the command rpm.  All the kpackage does is to take the mouse clicks, converts 
them into command line options and runs the command. 

You can then try these options.

Finding which package a file belongs to:

rpm -qf  <filename>   Note <filename> must be the full path ie '/bin/ls' not 
'ls'.

The name of the package to which the file belongs will be printed on the 
screen. 

Then check the package with 'rpm -V <package>.  The man pages that you should 
have printed out will enable you to interpret the results.  No output = OK.

Another very useful trick - To see if a particular package has been installed 
enter 'rpm -qa | grep <packagename>'.  If you are not sure of the spelling 
enter a partial name.

Hope this helps

Basil


On Monday 07 Oct 2002 21:47, Michael Adam wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, but the problem is to query installed packages and 
not 
> only those known by name but also also that stuff they thoughtful installed 
> in their "Standard packages" what is-in my simple sight- best done by 
> graphical tools like kpackage or gnorpm (they removed that too).  
> Am Montag, 7. Oktober 2002 23:30 schrieb Terry:
> > Actually I thought that to. . .but,  if you right click on the RPM in
> > either Konqueror or Gnomes file manager you'll see an option to "Install
> > package". . .choosing this option will fire up RH package manager and it
> > will check for dependencies automatically.  If there are some to be met,
> > it will tell you which install CD(s) to put in : )
> >
> > On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 04:09  PM, Michael Adam wrote:
> > > In Release 8.0 -called psyche (sic!)- Redhat
> > > removed -beneath some other misbuilded behavior- kpackage,
> 
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