[ale] Setup & XConfigurator broken in my RedHat system...

[Robert Hoffman]

rpm -Va will definitely do the trick. See man rpm for an explanation of what the output means. You should not be surprised to find a long list of changed packages on an existing system.

My suggestion is to install the XF86Setup rpm and use it instead of Xconfigurator. I have found it easier to use, especially on newer video cards.

Alternatively, use rpm to find Xconfigurator's dependencies and reinstall each of the packages.

The Gnome rpm tool will also verify packages for you if you prefer a GUI. I think it is called gnorpm.

-Rob


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Thompson Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:34:08 -0400 (EDT)

>
>If memory serves - rpm can verify the files. Something like "rpm -va" will
>go through the whole stack of installed files. Never used it myself, so
>YMWV(your milage will vary 8-)).
>
>On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately that's the problem. I'm having a heckuva time figuring out what's the
>> package that's busted (or even if it is a package and not something else). I wish
>> rpm had some kind of mechanism to test each file installed from an rpm with a
>> checksum for possible corruption. Then *it* could identify potentially what's
>> wrong. My lost+found only has two files,  #1098504 and #705250 , and while they are
>> 23277 and 34 bytes long respectively, they don't seem to have any content.
>> 
>>     thanx & later,
>> 
>>         Ben Scherrey
>> 
>> Ken N wrote:
>> 
>> > Well, in this case rpm is your friend, find out what the name of the rpm
>> > package is and re-rpm it. I think it is actually called
>> > Xconfigurator-someting-xxx.rpm but if you use the rpm -Uvh (package) then
>> > it will overwrite the installed package, (You may have to use --force, not
>> > sure.) Give that a try.
>> >         Also look in the lost and found for you files, see what there...
>> 
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