From: Aldridge, Robert E. (REAldridge@mcdermott.com)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 08:47:02 EDT
Suggestions included:
- Upgrade RPM (I already have done that)
- Re-download the emacs package (the "expected size" seemed to vary from the
actual).
I tried that, too. I suspect the package on the website is corrupt.
- Forget about the RPM package and just get the latest Emacs package.
That's what I did. No modifications were needed, just a "configure" and a
"make"
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
Thanks to:
Todd McGuinness
Peyton Bland
Thomas Blinn
Susan James
Dave Love
Robert Aldridge
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Error reinstalling emacs emacs-20.7-4.alpha.rpm
Tru64 Managers,
I'm trying to reinstall the "emacs" editor and not having much luck.
I downloaded the package and installation script, copied to /tmp/RPM, but
the installation fails without really providing an error message.
It just says:
error: /tmp/RPM/emacs-20.7-4.alpha.rpm cannot be installed
I'm not an expert on "RPM" but did read through the script and got to the
main command:
/usr/local/bin/rpm -Uv $depsflag
$kit_location/emacs-20.7-4.alpha.rpm
If I try this command (and add -vv) for "very verbose" I still don't get a
useful error message.
# rpm -U -vv /tmp/RPM/emacs-20.7-4.alpha.rpm
D: counting packages to install
D: found 1 packages
D: looking for packages to download
D: retrieved 0 packages
D: New Header signature
D: Signature size: 68
D: Signature pad : 4
D: sigsize : 72
D: Header + Archive: 16189983
D: expected size : 16190378
error: /tmp/RPM/emacs-20.7-4.alpha.rpm cannot be installed
D: found 0 source and 0 binary packages
Please suggest any steps I can take to either fix the RPM installation, or
somehow else reinstall Emacs.
(I have just downloaded a full emacs kit from gnu and may try to build that
package.)
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