Can't install apps locally opensuse 11.1

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Help! Install attempts from rpms on local harddisk fail. Yast or command line both return <file> not found on medium. :frowning: I’ve checked folder permissions, tried from root login, creating a local repo, etc. Something is definitely broken. SOS - I’ve upgraded and can’t install my accounting packages.

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  • blinddog,

in a console, become root and search for the file. Like

su
cd /path/to/rpm
ll

and please post the output of ll

Uwe

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I receive the following:

bigdog:/home/blinddog/Downloads # ||
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `||’

What is the double pipe trying to find?

Thanks,
Jeff

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  • blinddog,

it is a lower case “LL”, not pipes.

Uwe

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Silly me! Here’s the readout on the files and permissions:

bigdog:/home/blinddog/Downloads # ll
total 244393
-rw-r–r-- 1 blinddog users 25338751 Feb 3 09:52 GoogleEarthLinux.bin
-rw-r–r-- 1 blinddog users 36967791 Feb 3 10:15 nethack-vultures-2.1.1-1.5.src.rpm
-rw-r–r-- 1 blinddog users 22204404 Feb 3 10:32 quasar-client-2.1.3-1.i586.rpm
-rw-r–r-- 1 blinddog users 11683390 Feb 1 23:32 quasar-help-en_CA-2.1.3-1.i586.rpm
-rw-r–r-- 1 blinddog users 8172145 Feb 3 10:28 quasar-pos-client-2.1.3-1.i586.rpm
-rw-r–r-- 1 blinddog users 12080 Feb 1 23:29 quasar-sample-company-2.1.3-1.i586.rpm
-rw-r–r-- 1 blinddog users 8285147 Feb 3 10:29 quasar-server-2.1.3-1.i586.rpm
-rw-r–r-- 1 blinddog users 89743025 Feb 1 23:59 quasar-single-2.1.3-1.i586.rpm
-rw-r–r-- 1 blinddog users 47594785 Feb 1 23:45 quasar-tools-2.1.3-1.i586.rpm

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  • blinddog,

that looks fine, I thiought it might be a rights or file ownership issue.

So, on a console, try

su
rpm -Uvh /path/to/nameof.rpm

Any errors?
I cannot see why it should throw a “file not found” if the file name is correct.

Uwe

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I am having similar problems. Same rpm quasar single 2.1.3-1.
Have you been able to install quasar and if so can I ask how you were able to do it?
I have tried for hours typing…
rpm -i quasar-single-2.1.2.rpm
rpm -i quasar-single-2.1.3.rpm
and many other combinations within su terminal to no avail.
Any ideas??

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try using:
su -c ‘rpm -iUvh quasar-single-2.1.3.rpm’
Enter rootpassword when asked for, and post output (caused by the ‘v’ in -iUvh) here.

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Nope, didn’t work. Anyhow, I was only for the moment wanting to test the Quasar Package and I have been able to get it going on my ancient laptop running ubuntu 8.04.1 - it also had a problem but at least the .deb file told me what dependiencies were missing. Quasar does work well and even on a 233mhz Tecra 8000.