"rpm not installed"
 

Hello,

I am trying to install the rpm package icecc-2.8-0.i386.rpm from http://sourceforge.net/projects/icecc/. When I first tried 'rpm -i icecc*' it gave me the error:

error: Failed dependencies:
/usr/bin/python2 is needed by icecc-2.8-0

I have python 2.3 installed at /usr/bin/python2.3 so I figured icecc would still work and I tried 'rpm -i --nodeps icecc*' and it said:

error: cannot open lock file ///var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK in exclusive mode
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

so I used su to get into root and tried it again. It said:

warning: user vadim does not exist - using root
warning: group vadim does not exist - using root

and then it returned to the prompt. I thought it had been installed but when I tried 'rpm -q icecc*' it says:

package icecc-2.8-0.i386.rpm is not installed

but when I try installing it again ('rpm -i --nodeps icecc*' from root as I did above), it says

package icecc-2.8-0 is already installed

is it installed or not? how can I get it to work?

Try the rpm -q without the final asterisk... It doesn't check by filename, it checks by package name. Or, try "rpm -qa | grep icecc" instead.

As to running it, I don't know. You can try "rpm -ql icecc" to list what files it provides. Read any that look like doc files.

Hi,

if you really can't get it installed, try downloading rpm2targz, unpack that rpm and copy files to desired location.