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Program installed, now can't locate or start it

I think I installed 'wget' (an FTP-like program which runs in the background) using an .rpm. At least, I must have because I get the "already installed" message if I try to re-install it.

Now how do I invoke the program? The command "wget" is not recognised, nothing is listed in the Runlevel Editor, can't find anything that looks like a binary on the hard drive.

What should I do next?

Thanks.

Runlevel Editor?

Try launching it from a terminal or checking the man page:
man wget
To see what you get, then post the results. wget is much much much more than "an FTP-like application".

Cool

"no manual entry"

Results of man wget -

Code:

No manual entry for wget

When I try running the .rpm I get -

Code:

package wget-1.9.1-45 is already installed

I did try to install it (or perhaps another version) before but ran into dependency problems and gave up. Any idea how to untangle this?

I would love to discover what a great program wget is!

Thanks...

You need to clarify your termnology. The output you posted after you tried to "run'" the program looks as if you tried to reinstall the program. You can try:

rpm -qa | grep wget

to see the version you installed (without trying to reinstall it again). Alternatively, you can try:

locate wget

to see all the files with 'wget' in the filename. It will probably be somewhere like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. Of course, to get the most accurate results from the locate command, you'll have to switch user to root, then issue the 'updatedb' command, which will take a couple of minutes.

That being said, you should be able to simply enter 'wget' at a commant prompt to run the program. I would add an '&' after the command however (like 'wget &'), as the ampersand makes the process run in the background - you can then use the command tool/terminal for other tasks.

William Jones

Make sure you do 'updatedb' as root then locate whatever program you are looking for then run it :)

Good luck

Try "which wget", it gives me the location "/usr/bin/wget"

Entering 'locate wget' produces a 'command not found', but a search thru KDE turns up no binaries with 'wget' in their name.

Entering 'rpm -qa | grep wget' produces:

Code:

wget-1.9.1-45

As I said in my first post, entering the command 'wget' produces:

Code:

bash: wget: command not found

Quote:

You need to clarify your termnology. The output you posted after you tried to "run'" the program looks as if you tried to reinstall the program.

I said I ran the .rpm - using the command 'rpm'. I would love to run the program but it doesn't seem to exist, even though the system thinks it does.

More ideas much appreciated...

'which wget' returns absolutely nothing, bizarrely. Just the command prompt on a new line.

rollo, make sure you install the locate tools to use the locate command.

you also have to make sure that the RPM you are installing is for your current distro.

Once you do that, as i said, go into root and type updatedb
now close that terminal window and open a new one, then locate wget as a normal user

this SHOULD work

Try installing the .rpm you were trying to install originally, with the --force switch. That should uninstall the previous wget that it thinks is installed and install the new one

Quote:

Try installing the .rpm you were trying to install originally, with the --force switch.

Code:

rpm: only installation, upgrading, rmsource and rmspec may be forced

Quote:

rollo, make sure you install the locate tools to use the locate command.

Any idea how to install these? It's always the simplest tasks which are the hardest - I can't find any clues googling this one...

It's very easy.

In the Yast manager, go into software, then installation. Once there, search 'locate' and check the locate tools, once that's done do the steps i recommended :)

Good luck

Thanks minm.

Installed locate, ran updatedb, then ran 'locate wget'. This produced:

Code:

locate: /var/lib/locatedb: No such file or directory

:confused:

remember to close the terminal you did updatedb in and open a new one and run it in your user account not su

what's your path?

Code:

echo $PATH

you're probably logged in as root with su, but didn't do su - so your path is screwed up
try it as a regular user

Yep, did that. Anyway, a reboot solved it. Here's the output at last...

/etc/wgetrc
/home/rollo/installs/wget-1.8.2-310.i586.rpm
/home/rollo/installs/wget-1.9.1-0.gbv.1.i586.rpm
/home/rollo/installs/wget-1.9.1-45.i586.rpm
/opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/quanta/project-use-wget.png
/opt/kde3/share/services/useragentstrings/wgetoncurrent.desktop
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/newgetopt.pl
/usr/sbin/iwgetid
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/MAILING-LIST
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/PATCHES
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/README
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/README.cvs
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/rmold.pl
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/sample.wgetrc
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/TODO
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_10.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_11.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_12.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_1.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_2.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_3.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_4.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_5.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_6.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_7.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_8.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_9.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_abt.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_fot.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_ovr.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/wget/wget_toc.html
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/iwgetid.8.gz
/usr/share/susehelp/meta/Manuals/Productivity/wget.desktop
/usr/share/vim/vim62/syntax/wget.vim
/usr/share/YaST2/scrconf/root_wgetrc.scr
/usr/share/zsh/4.2.0/functions/_wget

(The second of the .rpm's listed I definitely didn't try to install.)

hmm, I don't think it installed right
Try installing the file (/home/rollo/installs/wget-1.9.1-45.i586.rpm) again..

'rpm -ivh wget-1.9.1-45.i586.rpm' produces:

Code:

package wget-1.9.1-45 is already installed

(This is essentially the problem of this thread.)

'echo $PATH' produces:

/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

idk about slack, and i dont know if this has already been said, but it seems like this can be done in 2 easy steps

find / -name wget

then find an entry that ends in wget and is most likely in some form of bin directory

then do

ln -s /bin/wget /path/to/wget

then run wget and it should run

--adam

Thanks for that, but the problem hasn't changed - the system claims 'wget' is installed but there is no binary.

'find' / 'locate' commands turn up nothing that could be a binary except this:

/usr/sbin/iwgetid

Anyone any more ideas?

Yes, try running as root.

Code:

linux:/home/rollo # find / -name wget

/usr/share/doc/packages/wget

find: /media/cdrom: No medium found

linux:/home/rollo #

See, nothing.

So I guess my rephrased problem is, how do I uninstall install this program (which isn't really installed) so that I can then install it with the .rpm and not get this error message:

Code:

package wget-1.9.1-45 is already installed

OK, you can uninstall it with

Code:

rpm -e packagename.rpm

, but first I'll try installing wget with

Code:

rpm -Uvh --force wget.<whatever>.rpm

. Try with --force first, if it does not work, use the -e.

Cheers whiperm5

This time the --force switch worked. Must have been the -Uvh switch which made the difference - thanks.

wget now installed correctly at last.

No problem :) The Uvh simply means upgrade, verify headers. It also installs things if they aren't installed, so it does not mean an older version must be installed. I think it's the --force that made the diff, not the Uvh.