RE: OT? Rhas 3.0 rpm quandary

I did try rebuild, no effect.

The OUI says we do need openmotif to install em10g.

This is not about database 10g, it's about em10g. The requirements don't appear to be the same for both if you don't need openmotif for it.

I decided to take a chance (gasp!), used red hat network to install the latest openmotif package and told the installer to continue anyway.

Pat.

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From: Matthew Zito [mailto:mzito_at_gridapp.com] Sent: December 2, 2004 12:07 PM
To: BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
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Subject: Re: OT? Rhas 3.0 rpm quandary

Patrick,

You don't actually need the OpenMotif package - we don't include it as part of our standard redhat 3 build and we install/uninstall/create/destroy Oracle 10g databases on an almost-daily basis.

The other answer might be - is there possibly another package named openmotif? did you try doing an rpm -qa | grep motif and look for any secondary packages that could have confused it? There's also the --rebuild flag - you can use that to repair corrupted rpm databases.

Thanks,
Matt

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On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Boivin, Patrice J wrote:



> I ran into a pl/sql exception problem on the em10g main screen, after 

> over

> two weeks back and forth with Metalink I decided to reinstall 

> everything.

>

> I re-installed rhas 3.0 es on the server, applied package updates.

>

> Applied the oui patch.

>

> Started installing em10g.

>

> The oui is not happy, it warns me about the openmotif package.  It 

> can't

> find the version it is looking for.

>

> It turns out that the version I have on my machine is newer than what 

> em10g

> is looking for.  There are some metalink notes about openmotif 

> versions and

> reports, I don't know if this applies to em10g.

>

> I tell the gui applications add/remove tool to deinstall openmotif, 

> then to

> reinstall it.  It reinstalls the new version instead of the original, 

> older

> version from CD.

>

> I go to a terminal window, use rpm -e to deinstall openmotif, then rpm 

> -q

> openmotif to see if it's gone -- it is gone.

>

> I copy the original openmotif version from cd3 to local disk, then use 

> rpm

> -ivh to install the openmotif (old version).  Rpm says that openmotif 

> (newer

> version number) is already on the machine.  Yet when I do rpm -q it 

> tells me

> openmotif is not installed.

>

> I tried rpm -U; rpm --force; nothing seems to work.

>

> No info on the Red Hat site, they seem to have just copied and pasted

> passages from the rpm.org site.

>

> Has anyone run into this before?  What do you do when rpm is confused?

>

> I suspect there is an entry somewhere that mentions the new version of

> openmotif, but when I de-installed the package that didn't get cleaned.

>

> I am about do search the whole hard disk to find any file that 

> mentions the

> new version number... If that fails I will probably reinstall, I'm 

> getting

> good at that now...

>

> Patrice.

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