[ale] Setup & XConfigurator broken in my RedHat system...

[Thompson Freeman]

If memory serves - rpm can verify the files. Something like "rpm -va" will
go through the whole stack of installed files. Never used it myself, so
YMWV(your milage will vary 8-)).

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:

> Unfortunately that's the problem. I'm having a heckuva time figuring out what's the
> package that's busted (or even if it is a package and not something else). I wish
> rpm had some kind of mechanism to test each file installed from an rpm with a
> checksum for possible corruption. Then *it* could identify potentially what's
> wrong. My lost+found only has two files,  #1098504 and #705250 , and while they are
> 23277 and 34 bytes long respectively, they don't seem to have any content.
> 
>     thanx & later,
> 
>         Ben Scherrey
> 
> Ken N wrote:
> 
> > Well, in this case rpm is your friend, find out what the name of the rpm
> > package is and re-rpm it. I think it is actually called
> > Xconfigurator-someting-xxx.rpm but if you use the rpm -Uvh (package) then
> > it will overwrite the installed package, (You may have to use --force, not
> > sure.) Give that a try.
> >         Also look in the lost and found for you files, see what there...
> 
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