add/remove applications and rpm question
 

in linux redhat 9, i cant install the gaim rpm wich i jus downloaded

gaim-0.70-1rh9.i386.rpm

it jus says preparing system for update and checkin existing rpms or somethin then the window dissapears and thats all,

also, if i installed some rpm, hwo can i remove it, for example, i cant remove KDE completely in Add/Remove the Standard packages dont hav an option to be removed ??

i got this error:

[root@localhost root]# rpm -ivh '/root/Desktop/gaim-0.70-1rh9.i386.rpm'
warning: /root/Desktop/gaim-0.70-1rh9.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 883c1c14
error: Failed dependencies:
libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.70-1rh9
libtcl8.3.so is needed by gaim-0.70-1rh9
libtk8.3.so is needed by gaim-0.70-1rh9

Tricky...

For the gaim install, try the same command but replace the -i with -U. If that doesn't work repost the output...

As for removing RPMs from the system, you can use "rpm -e <package>". This will take some work though. Red Hat has a real spider web of depenancies that you are going to have to weed through.

Hi,
Just refer to this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/76323

[root@localhost root]# rpm -U '/root/Desktop/gaim-0.70-1rh9.i386.rpm'
warning: /root/Desktop/gaim-0.70-1rh9.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 883c1c14
error: Failed dependencies:
libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.70-1rh9
libtcl8.3.so is needed by gaim-0.70-1rh9
libtk8.3.so is needed by gaim-0.70-1rh9
[root@localhost root]#

Check out the post that Arenba submitted... I went over it briefly but I think the answers to the gaim issue will be located there...

ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/freshrpms/redhat/9

look here for the files to fulfil those depenacies