up2date & rpm command didn't work ........ [URGENT]

Zi5 · 05-21-2004, 04:23 PM

Hello Their ,
I have a webserver on 100MB line but i still have a problem when i install the RH9 and i but the websites data in it then i try to make this command
rpm -qa >> Updates
Then cut -d\- -f1 Updates | while read up ; do up2date -f $up ; done
but when i do this command after 5 minutes the system hanging and i have reboot it then it work fine ... but now it still the rpm & up2date commands didn't work if i enter any command of them it's show me that
root@host [/]# rpm

it stay like that and up2date
root@host [/]# up2date

it's stay like that without doing anything so can anybody help me to fix the commands ..
Thanks you
wish you all best happys

Zi5 · 05-21-2004, 05:18 PM

Please Help me

Im really feel sad

Lleb_KCir · 05-21-2004, 07:08 PM

up2date is no longer active for RH9 that is your problem. best to get a new distro like fedoraC2 (it will be live in 1 month) or mandrake, slackware, what ever.

you can also manualy download the RPM list off RH web page, i think that is still active, but i am not sure if it is there or not. if not, just find the files you want to update, download their rpm and

rpm -Uvh filename.rpm

and upgrade it from there.

Mathieu · 05-21-2004, 07:30 PM

It's true... support for RedHat 9 has stopped -- no more Up2Date for RH9.
But... your RPM command should still work. (unless I misunderstood your post)

Does the rpm command still work ?
By typing the following command, a list of RPMs should appear on your screen.

Code:

rpm -qa

Zi5 · 05-21-2004, 08:36 PM

Hello All ,
Them re work fine
by delete the files there /var/lib/up2date/*
/var/lib/rpm/*_db
Thanks you too much
Regards

perry · 05-25-2004, 11:36 AM

i don't know what your talking about, i just ran up2date and it connected, downloaded and installed for me just fine.... the only complaint i have right now is that there was an set of options that i was given the first time i ran it, one of them was to save the rpms locally which is what i'd like it to do now (so that i can burn a cd of the updates).... anybody with any ideas on that ?

in the meantime, as of May 25, 2004 i have a new RH9 installation and up2date running just fine....

- perry

Lleb_KCir · 05-25-2004, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zi5
Hello All ,
Them re work fine
by delete the files there /var/lib/up2date/*
/var/lib/rpm/*_db
Thanks you too much
Regards

Code:

[ray@localhost ray]$ cd /var/lib/up2date
[ray@localhost up2date]$ ls
[ray@localhost up2date]$ cd /var/lib/rpm
[ray@localhost rpm]$ ls
Basenames     __db.003  Installtid   Provideversion  Sha1header
Conflictname  Dirnames  Name         Pubkeys         Sigmd5
__db.001      Filemd5s  Packages     Requirename     Triggername
__db.002      Group     Providename  Requireversion

so if i empty the /var/lib/rpm dir of those files ill have access to up2date again for RH9?