RPM is not happening (RH 8.0)

[tamara]

totally messed up the 7.2 so tried 8.0 and all is apparently well except for the rpm.

Nothing happens -- not from gui, not from command line. rpm -ivh <package> -- nothing

click on it the folder -- nothing

redhat-package-manager -- nothing

what happened? What did I do _this_ time?

[fancypiper]

:confused: The only reason I can think of for nothing hapening in the command line is not pressing the enter key. Did you press it? If you did press it, you should get either an error message or some progress hatchmarks.

Redhat links:
Red Hat Linux Manuals (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/)
Easier software management: APT-RPM (http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/) - Red Carpet (http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_red_carpet/)
rpmfind (http://rpmfind.net/)
Maximum RPM (http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/)

[sharth]

what do you mean by "nothing"

does the prompt come back up. do you get bash: no command or what?

[tamara]

That's it sharth, I press enter and nothing happens. The cursor just sits there.

and sits

and sits

if never goes back to command line or bash or whatever. It just sits there. Press enter and it drops a line, but that's all.

If I try the Package Manager, then it just dies -- the screen grays out and nothing happens, no error, nothing.

I tried the rpm -rebuilddb that I read here.

nothing

I tried rpm -qa

nothing

I used to have 7.2 and I did not upgrade, but reinstalled. So I don't know what I did.

[sharth]

bad rpm installed is all i can think of. The only thing i could say is try to reinstall rpm (from source, and then replace that with a red hat compiled one I guess.)

[tamara]

I saw that in someone's sig somewhere -- I gotta adopt it.

Don't know why (which makes me nuts), but I rebooted out of disgust and voila! All has returned to normal.

it was that or learn to make, config so I can get apt-rpm going again.