F7 : weird rpm install problem

[Beartooth]

What the dickens is going on here?? :

[root@localhost btth]# pwd
/home/btth
[root@localhost btth]# ls|grep pine
pine
pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
[root@localhost btth]# rpm -ivh pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
error: open of Privoxy failed: No such file or directory
error: open of doesnt support FTP. Please fix your setup.  failed: No 
such file or directory
[root@localhost btth]#

The rpm is there. Why doesn't it at least try to install it? What the 
____ does Fedora think privoxy or ftp have to do with rpm?? (Btw, "pine" 
here is just a text file of old messages I've saved about pine; and -Uvh 
instead of -ivh makes no difference, either, anyway.)

[Chris Mohler]

On 8/14/07, Beartooth  wrote:
[...]
> [root@localhost btth]# rpm -ivh pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
> error: open of Privoxy failed: No such file or directory
> error: open of doesnt support FTP. Please fix your setup.  failed: No
> such file or directory

Odd.  What happens if you do 'yum localinstall pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm'?

Chris

[Michael Schwendt]

On 14/08/07, Beartooth  wrote:
> What the dickens is going on here?? :
>
> [root@localhost btth]# pwd
> /home/btth
> [root@localhost btth]# ls|grep pine
> pine
> pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
> [root@localhost btth]# rpm -ivh pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
> error: open of Privoxy failed: No such file or directory
> error: open of doesnt support FTP. Please fix your setup.  failed: No
> such file or directory

Can you demonstrate that it is really a valid RPM file?
E.g. run "rpm -Kv pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm" plus other commands to
list the contents etc.

[Karl Larsen]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On 14/08/07, Beartooth  wrote:
> > What the dickens is going on here?? :
> >
> > [root@localhost btth]# pwd
> > /home/btth
> > [root@localhost btth]# ls|grep pine
> > pine
> > pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
> > [root@localhost btth]# rpm -ivh pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
> > error: open of Privoxy failed: No such file or directory
> > error: open of doesnt support FTP. Please fix your setup.  failed: No
> > such file or directory
>
> Can you demonstrate that it is really a valid RPM file?
> E.g. run "rpm -Kv pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm" plus other commands to
> list the contents etc.

What you can do is is type pine in a terminal window and it comes up 
and works. I like pine and use it to read root mail. Thank you,

[Michael Schwendt]

On 15/08/07, Karl Larsen  wrote:
> > Can you demonstrate that it is really a valid RPM file?
> > E.g. run "rpm -Kv pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm" plus other commands to
> > list the contents etc.
> What you can do is is type pine in a terminal window and it comes up
>
> and works.

You've missed the point of this thread completely, Karl. The original
poster encounters problems _installing_ a local pine rpm package.
> I like pine and use it to read root mail. Thank you,

Usually, one forwards root's mail or creates an alias user that
receives root's mail. ;o)

[Tim]

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 15:18 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Usually, one forwards root's mail or creates an alias user that
> receives root's mail. ;o)

Yes, that's much safer to do.  You're best not to run any programs that
may handle externally derived data (e.g. mail, news clients, web
browsers, etc), as root, unless you absolutely have to.

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Beartooth wrote:
> What the dickens is going on here?? :
>
> [root@localhost btth]# pwd
> /home/btth
> [root@localhost btth]# ls|grep pine
> pine
> pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
> [root@localhost btth]# rpm -ivh pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
> error: open of Privoxy failed: No such file or directory
> error: open of doesnt support FTP. Please fix your setup.  failed: No
> such file or directory
> [root@localhost btth]#
>
> The rpm is there. Why doesn't it at least try to install it? What the
> ____ does Fedora think privoxy or ftp have to do with rpm?? (Btw, "pine"
> here is just a text file of old messages I've saved about pine; and -Uvh
> instead of -ivh makes no difference, either, anyway.)

The *file* is there, but I bet it actually contains text along the lines 
of "Privoxy doesn't support FTP. Please fix your setup ...." instead of 
the actual rpm. Rpm notices it's not an actual rpm and treats it as a 
manifest instead (most likely because there's a reference to the rpm in 
the error message) ... and there you go.

- Panu -