RE: [Evolution] Upgrading Evolution

[Joseph <tech ekn com>]

I use the nyquist rpms and after the last update yesterday,
my spelling quit working.

Is there a good faq on the rpm's needed for the spelling to work?

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 21:35, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> You can get rpms from a few places..
>
> one is nyquist rpms (apt-repo.. not sure of exact url.. people.escs
> something like that)
>
> or
>
> you can get it from www.planetmirror.com/pub/
>
> That's actually one of the mirrors that the ximian installer gets the files
> from..
>
> Cheers,
> Mun Heng, Ow
> H/M Engineering
> Western Digital M'sia 
> DID : 03-7870 5168
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan [mailto:poc usb ve]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:05 AM
> To: Todd Cary
> Cc: Jeffrey Stedfast; evolution lists ximian com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Upgrading Evolution
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 16:31, Todd Cary wrote:
> > Patrick -
> >
> > I forgot to check the privileges!  They are correct: rw,r,r (I need to
> > learn the octal equivalents).  However, I did change the owner but
> > that made no difference - as expected.
>
> On my machine the modes are 644 (rw,r,r) and owner root, and
> I don't have any difficulty. You might want to check the mode
> on the directory itself, just in case. Mine is:
>
> drwxr-xr-x    2 rpm      rpm          1024 Sep 26 09:40 /var/lib/rpm/
>
>
> > Also, I did "ps - A | grep "rpm".
> >
> > Hmmmmm....is there a way to run the rpm manually?  I am using
> >
> > wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com|sh
>
> You could just copy the output of wget:
>
> wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com > foo
>
> and then poke around in foo to see what's going on.
>
> poc
>
> > Todd
> >
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > rpm can sometimes leave its database in a locked state, even
> > > when no processes are active on it. If this happens, I've found
> > > that the following works for me (as superuser):
> > >
> > >   rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00?
> > >
> > > (the files will be recreated next time rpm runs).
> > >
> > > YMMV of course ...
> > >
> > > poc
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:32, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > >   
> > > > sounds like your rpm database is locked by another process. you'll
> have
> > > > to kill that other process I guess. *shrug*
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 09:41, Todd Cary wrote:
> > > >     
> > > > > When Ximian attempts to install a new version, it almosts gets to
> the 
> > > > > end, but this error comes up:
> > > > >
> > > > > Sep 26 12:41:28 Transaction failed: Unable to complete RPM
> transaction: 
> > > > > unable to open RPM database: fcntl failed
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > > Todd
> > > > >
> > > > > -
> > > > >
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respectfully, Joseph - (606) 477-2355 x140
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