Fieldmethods!!

I think you hit the nail square on!! The RPM's WERE corupted!!!

I re-downloaded it and verified the MD5.. And tried the simple rpm -Fvh up2date*.rpm walla walla! Problem solved!

No wonder there wasn't an awfully lot of discussion on this... everybody else got good RPM's hehe

*WHEW*

Thank goodness this ordeal is over!

Thanks for taking the time to share your very details steps how you fixed your problem tho!

-ToBeOrNot

Glad that worked out. I've never run into corrupted RPMs, either.

I guess one should get in the habit of always checking md5 sums.

Score one for obsessive completeness

I downloaded and installed the RPM. Everything runs fine until the final screen. I always get username errors. I've tried using my old one and setting up a new one with a diff email, no luck. Is this something you have to pay to register for? I've been lurking the Redhat site for months now getting enough info to do an install. RH9 is my 1st Linux install and everything works well except for getting the software updates. Any help appreciated. Flames and jeers cheerfully ignored.

I got as excited as the 1st time I booted my first built from scratch PC! Talk about a newbie, I'm kicking myself for not seeing the solution in the beginning. There are 3 steps, not 2 to get up2date working. After I read the Redhat instructions for the 5th time it hit me. I took a chance and used the automated SSL cert update without downloading and checksumming. It worked and the updates ran like a champ. The more I use Linux, the more impressed I am. Now if I can just unlearn my nasty old DOS habits, I think I might just make it.

Hi,

I got another kind of problem installing the certificate.

I downloaded the rpm files for RedHat 9, and when I try the rpm up2date-*, I get a File not Found by glob.

I'm in the directory containing the rpm files, I made a checksum on them and it worked but it seems it doesn't find the files. Very strange.

Anyone has an idea?

Stephane.

Stephane,
Can you provide the following after you navigate to the directory:
pwd
ls -al
and the rpm command your using with full output and error messages.

Also, see this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=89379

Found answer, they were corrupted. I downloaded them again and it worked!

Thanks,

Stephane.

I have DL the 4 rpm packages, done the md5sum and all show good. However, when I try to run 'up2date-gnome-3.1.23.2-1.i386 rpm', I get a message that I need to 'up2date --register'. I enter the 'up2date --register', and no matter whether I input new user name, pw, etc., or try using my current user id and pw, I continually get an error that states 'problem with user id'. I've tried all manner of approachs and can't register, so I can not get the rpm packages for my RH9. Anyone have an idea? I'm at my limited wits end....

Bob

By Jove I think I may have figured it out!!! I went to terminal and entered 'su' at $ - then at '#' entered 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' and Voila - all rpm's appeared to load. Then when I entered 'up2date --register', all sorts of download stuff took place and after 1+ hours, the DL and install appeared to work. Being a newbie, I can only surmise that I have up--to-date stuff rom Redhat. Anyway, I see a lot of items I did not have before all this took place......

Okay I'm new. I have tried to update the up2date agent also and am getting the following errors.

error: failed dependencies:
poptmodule.so()(64bit) is needed by up2date-2.8.40-2.7.2
libc.so.6.1()(64bit) is needed by up2date-2.8.40-2.7.2
libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.2)(64bit) is needed by up2date-2.8.40-2.7.2

Where can I find this things and how/where do I install them.
My AIM buddy name is: clarence1720
and my MSN is: barbieelms@hotmail.com

please help!

I am still having problems with this installation, I have tried the put both rpm in one directory and run command
rpm -U up2date*.rpm

but I recieve the following error
error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/bash is needed by up2date-4.1.21-3
/bin/sh is needed by up2date-4.1.21-3
libc.so.6 is needed by up2date-4.1.21-3
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by up2date-4.1.21-3
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by up2date-4.1.21-3
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by up2date-4.1.21-3

Any suggestions are welcome as I am a Very new user to Linux [using Fedora] and dont really get it yet you might say.

Cheers

well I managed to find the glibc rpm's and installed them
then ran the combined command as root in a terminal to install up2date and got a new error

rpm -Fvh *.rpm
rpm: relocation error: /lib/i686/librt.so.1: symbol __pthread_clock_settime, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libpthread.so.0 with link time reference

humph, any suggestions?