[SOLVED] Installed programs not working recently...

adam1969in · 06-22-2012, 07:22 AM

I had installed Open Office 3.1, Adobe Acrobat Reader 9, Helix player, Realplayer in my RHEL 5.1. But when I recently installed Mplayer it failed in some dependencies. After doing this when I tried to run Acrobat reader it is not opening up. Even Open Office, Realplayer or Helix player - all are not opening up. When I double Click on those icons nothing seems to happen. Even I am unable to run them from command line.
I can't understand what has happened. I'm also unable to uninstall the mplayer - it says the package not installed. But when I try to reinstall the package it says already installed. It is same to case for all the programs including Adobe Reader. Please help me to resolve this problem as I often need openoffice and adobe reader.

Even Add/Remove software not working.

unSpawn · 06-23-2012, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by adam1969in

RHEL 5.1

Unless you have compelling reasons to run that distribution and specific version I advise you to either upgrade to U8 or move to another distribution before commencing. Running RHEL5.8 contains all the bug fixes and improvements Red Hat offers for EL5. If you want to maintain RHEL compatibility and run an Enterprise-grade distribution but without the licensing and paid support then check out Centos 6.2 or Scientific Linux 6.2. Elif you would like access to more cutting edge kernels and software check out Fedora or any other current, supported, maintained Linux distribution.

Quote:

Originally Posted by adam1969in

I had installed Open Office 3.1, Adobe Acrobat Reader 9, Helix player, Realplayer () But when I recently installed Mplayer it failed in some dependencies.

Did you download packages from the vendors site?
Were these RHEL-specific packages? Or did you download them from a (which?) 3rd party repository?
And how did you install these packages? From the command line using 'rpm' commands directly? Or using Yum or a graphical interface? Were all dependencies satisfied?
Where did you D/L Mplayer from? What were the exact errors?
Can you verify packages were installed? If we take RealPlayer as example what does running as root this return:

Code:

rpm -qVv RealPlayer 2>&1|grep -v '^\.\{8\}'

Quote:

Originally Posted by adam1969in

After doing this when I tried to run Acrobat reader it is not opening up. Even Open Office, Realplayer or Helix player - all are not opening up. When I double Click on those icons nothing seems to happen. Even I am unable to run them from command line.

Take one application, for example soffice. As unprivileged user what does this return:

Code:

echo $PATH; locate -r /soffice.bin; which soffice

If you take the path displayed by 'which soffice' can you run that from the command line?

Quote:

Originally Posted by adam1969in

I'm also unable to uninstall the mplayer - it says the package not installed. But when I try to reinstall the package it says already installed. It is same to case for all the programs including Adobe Reader.

Show us the command you use (for example 'rpm --test -e mplayer' or 'yum remove RealPlayer') and the exact output. If you want to save output to a text file then you can run commands like 'rpm --test -e RealPlayer 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/output.txt'.

adam1969in · 07-11-2012, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

Unless you have compelling reasons to run that distribution and specific version I advise you to either upgrade to U8 or move to another distribution before commencing. Running RHEL5.8 contains all the bug fixes and improvements Red Hat offers for EL5. If you want to maintain RHEL compatibility and run an Enterprise-grade distribution but without the licensing and paid support then check out Centos 6.2 or Scientific Linux 6.2. Elif you would like access to more cutting edge kernels and software check out Fedora or any other current, supported, maintained Linux distribution.

Did you download packages from the vendors site?
Were these RHEL-specific packages? Or did you download them from a (which?) 3rd party repository?
And how did you install these packages? From the command line using 'rpm' commands directly? Or using Yum or a graphical interface? Were all dependencies satisfied?
Where did you D/L Mplayer from? What were the exact errors?
Can you verify packages were installed? If we take RealPlayer as example what does running as root this return:

Code:

rpm -qVv RealPlayer 2>&1|grep -v '^\.\{8\}'

Take one application, for example soffice. As unprivileged user what does this return:

Code:

echo $PATH; locate -r /soffice.bin; which soffice

If you take the path displayed by 'which soffice' can you run that from the command line?

Show us the command you use (for example 'rpm --test -e mplayer' or 'yum remove RealPlayer') and the exact output. If you want to save output to a text file then you can run commands like 'rpm --test -e RealPlayer 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/output.txt'.

rpm --test -e ......
returns
package not installed..!

however i uninstalled openoffice completely and reinstalled it.
there were no errors. i found everything installed successfully.
but unable to run soffice.bin - either from command line or by double click or through clicking on applications-openoffice

adam1969in · 07-15-2013, 07:43 AM

Code:

The only way I got out of this situation was to format and reinstall the OS.  THANKS FOR ALL THE ANSWERS.