Hi,

I'm having major problems with using rpm to install packages (i.e. gcc and binutils) on my new RedHat 9 server.

i'm using the command in the following format:

rpm -ivh packagename.rpm.

Where packagename.rpm is the URL of the remote rpm file for binutil. This gives no errors. However, when I then try entering binutil at the prompt, I get the error "-bash: binutil: command not found". Indeed, entering rpm -q binutil tells me that package binutil is not installed.

I've tried doing an updatedb, but this doesn't seem to help. I've typed locate binutil, which outputs the following:

Therefore, it looks like rpm is indeed unpacking the rpm into that location, but not actually installing it? What do I need to do?

I would of course go and manually build binutils myself from those files, but I don't have gcc installed yet either!

What can I do? Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks in advance.

(Oh, and this is all on a remote server, so I can't use the RedHat CDs!)

Isn't it because you installed the source binutils (as it seems by the path /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ ... in theses lines)?

What is the output of
whereis binutils

Try to search and install a binary binutils.

Ahhhh I see! Thanks very much, I've now tried downloading adifferent binutils rpm and things seem to work now!