F7 : weird rpm install problem

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Beartooth wrote:

>
> What the dickens is going on here?? :
>
> [root at localhost btth]# pwd
> /home/btth
> [root at localhost btth]# ls|grep pine
> pine
> pine-4.64-5.lvn7.i386.rpm
> [root at 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 at 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 -