rpm does nothing?

HighLife · 10-13-2003, 12:19 AM

I've downloaded the mrtg rpm package from Red Hat, but when I try to:

rpm -ivh mrtg-2[1].9.17-3.i386.rpm

...nothing happens. I dont get an error message or anything it just returns to the command prompt. I've tried rebuilding the rpm database and it didnt help. Any ideas?

megaspaz · 10-13-2003, 12:29 AM

are you trying this as root?

HighLife · 10-13-2003, 12:31 AM

...yep I logged in as a user and su - to root.

megaspaz · 10-13-2003, 12:46 AM

does this happen for all rpms or just this one?

andutt · 10-13-2003, 04:52 AM

Try to execute rpm -qa to verify that your rpm-database is feeling well.

Crashed_Again · 10-13-2003, 04:55 AM

yeah andutt has the million dollar question: are the rpms being installed?

After you do:

rpm -ivh mrtg-2[1].9.17-3.i386.rpm

what does:

rpm -qa | grep mrtg

return?