[Gloucs] rpm and SuSe

[Francis Barton]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:04, John Kilgour wrote:
> I am running SuSE 8.2 with KDE 3.1.1 and OpenOffice 1.0.1. The December Linux 
> magazine cover disk has KDE 3.1.4 noarch rpms and OpenOffice 1.1 ditto.
> 
> The CD mounts the file on my system as 
> ;/media/cdrecorder/aa/bb/cc/dd/ee/noarch/kde****noarch.rpm
> 
> After logging on as root what do I do? If I change to ***/noarch and rpm -Uvh 
> the file nothing seems to happen. I get no error messages. can anyone point 
> me in the correct direction?

AFAIK, it doesn't matter what your current working directory (pwd) is.

# rpm -Uvh /media/cdrecorder/aa/bb/cc/dd/ee/noarch/kde*noarch.rpm

should work, and should give error messages otherwise.
(Seems a bizarre filesystem they have on the CD though!)

What was the exact command you tried?