RE: OT? Rhas 3.0 rpm quandary

Someone here in my organization ran into the same thing. Via google I found an article about installing 10g on SUSE, and it mentions the openmotif problem; their instructions were to ignore the error.

Although the OUI appears to have the install button disabled, you can still "next" and basically continue with the installation.

Of course, YMMV.

...Rudy

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Boivin, Patrice J
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:28 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: OT? Rhas 3.0 rpm quandary

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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