.RPM Trouble - .rpm was not found on the medium
Hey everybody,
After using Windows since 3.0 I have finally decided to move to Linux. I downloaded SuSe 9.1 Personal and don't regret a single thing. It is kind of hard but I am adjusting. Anyways on to my problem. I have been trying to get my multimedia working but every .RPM file that I download from the net and open with/install via YaST comes up with the message ".rpm was not found on the medium". I tried downloading from different areas and it still failed so it isn't the actual .RPM file. Can anybody help me? Thanks, Sporadic |
Open a console, use 'su' to become root, cd to the directory with the .rpm file and issue rpm -ivh <filename>.rpm and let us know the output. It coud be that YAST isn't set up correctly and this will help narrow it down.
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bash: Desktop/Temp: is a directory linux:/home/charlie # rpm -ivh w32codec-all-20041007-0.pm.0.i386.rpm error: open of w32codec-all-20041007-0.pm.0.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory :confused: That is the correct file name so I have no idea what is going on. *EDIT* Thanks for the welcome. :cool: I plan to be here for a long time *EDIT* |
"error: open of w32codec-all-20041007-0.pm.0.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory"
That just means this rpm isn't in your home directory. Or you made a typo while typing the name of the rpm. You need to find out which directory it is in. Code:
whereis w32codec-all-20041007-0.pm.0.i386.rpm Code:
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locate w32codec |
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That is where I downloaded it. I will try the locate thing though. *EDIT* Well I just tried something linux:/home/charlie # Desktop/Temp/w32codec-all-20041007-0.pm.0.i386.rpm bash: Desktop/Temp/w32codec-all-20041007-0.pm.0.i386.rpm: Permission denied Appentially I don't have permission....even though I signed in through the root Also I already have findutils installed but locate though the Konsole did't work *EDIT* |
The commands are:
cd Desktop/Temp #same as it would be under Windows rpm -ivh w32codec-all-20041007-0.pm.0.i386.rpm #i=install v=verbose h=show progress and that's it. |
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