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Re: OT? Rhas 3.0 rpm quandary

From: Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: BoivinP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:06:55 -0500


Patrick,

You don't actually need the OpenMotif package - we don't include it as 
part of our standard redhat 3 build and we 
install/uninstall/create/destroy Oracle 10g databases on an 
almost-daily basis.

The other answer might be - is there possibly another package named 
openmotif? did you try doing an rpm -qa | grep motif and look for any 
secondary packages that could have confused it?  There's also the 
--rebuild flag - you can use that to repair corrupted rpm databases.

Thanks,
Matt

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On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Boivin, Patrice J wrote:

> I ran into a pl/sql exception problem on the em10g main screen, after 
> over
> two weeks back and forth with Metalink I decided to reinstall 
> everything.
>
> I re-installed rhas 3.0 es on the server, applied package updates.
>
> Applied the oui patch.
>
> Started installing em10g.
>
> The oui is not happy, it warns me about the openmotif package.  It 
> can't
> find the version it is looking for.
>
> It turns out that the version I have on my machine is newer than what 
> em10g
> is looking for.  There are some metalink notes about openmotif 
> versions and
> reports, I don't know if this applies to em10g.
>
> I tell the gui applications add/remove tool to deinstall openmotif, 
> then to
> reinstall it.  It reinstalls the new version instead of the original, 
> older
> version from CD.
>
> I go to a terminal window, use rpm -e to deinstall openmotif, then rpm 
> -q
> openmotif to see if it's gone -- it is gone.
>
> I copy the original openmotif version from cd3 to local disk, then use 
> rpm
> -ivh to install the openmotif (old version).  Rpm says that openmotif 
> (newer
> version number) is already on the machine.  Yet when I do rpm -q it 
> tells me
> openmotif is not installed.
>
> I tried rpm -U; rpm --force; nothing seems to work.
>
> No info on the Red Hat site, they seem to have just copied and pasted
> passages from the rpm.org site.
>
> Has anyone run into this before?  What do you do when rpm is confused?
>
> I suspect there is an entry somewhere that mentions the new version of
> openmotif, but when I de-installed the package that didn't get cleaned.
>
> I am about do search the whole hard disk to find any file that 
> mentions the
> new version number... If that fails I will probably reinstall, I'm 
> getting
> good at that now...
>
> Patrice.
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