[Gllug] RPM problem

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 16:50 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> >>
> >>You need to enter the package name, not the package _file name_.
> >>
> >>Something like "rpm -e "clamav-server"
> > 
> > Actually 
> >  rpm -i --force clamav-server-0.87.1-1.i386.rpm
> >
> > fixed it
> > 
> 
> Unless you really really know what you are doing, you should never need 
> to use --nodeps and/or --force options. and in this case, you should 
> have followed what Martin said and tried a rpm -e clamav-server ( which 
> would have most likely given you a list of other packages that depend on 
> clamav-server )
> 
> btw, what distro are you doing this on ? I am sure there is a repository 


There is. The problem was an interrupted installation. I had fetched the
rpms via yum

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