New HOWTO....HOWTO-Hose-RedHat-Installation (help!)

New HOWTO....HOWTO-Hose-RedHat-Installation (help!)

Post by David Well » Sat, 06 Jan 1996 04:00:00



Boy, my early experiences with ELF format and RedHat's RPM format
hasn't been positive.  I wanted to upgrade my shiny new Linux
installation (the GCC stuff), so I ran 'rpm -U' on the following rpm
packages:
gcc-2.7.2-1.i386.rpm
libc-static-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
libc-profile-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
libc-include-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
libc-devel-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
libc-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm

(In that order, I believe)

Anyway, rebooting now gives me:

/sbin/getty: can't load library libtermcap.so.2

repeatedly.  No bootup :-(

Am I doing something wrong, or am I putting entirely too much trust in
the RPM utility?

Any suggestions on how to fix?

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New HOWTO....HOWTO-Hose-RedHat-Installation (help!)

Post by Dud Roto » Mon, 08 Jan 1996 04:00:00


This was recently discussed in the redhat-list ..you were supposed
to "install" ..not "upgrade".  I believe Erik posted a suggestion for
fixing this error.  Check the most recent posts on the redhat-list.

|> Boy, my early experiences with ELF format and RedHat's RPM format
|> hasn't been positive.  I wanted to upgrade my shiny new Linux
|> installation (the GCC stuff), so I ran 'rpm -U' on the following rpm
|> packages:
|> gcc-2.7.2-1.i386.rpm
|> libc-static-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
|> libc-profile-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
|> libc-include-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
|> libc-devel-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
|> libc-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
|>
|> (In that order, I believe)
|>
|> Anyway, rebooting now gives me:
|>
|> /sbin/getty: can't load library libtermcap.so.2
|>
|> repeatedly.  No bootup :-(
|>
|> Am I doing something wrong, or am I putting entirely too much trust in
|> the RPM utility?
|>
|> Any suggestions on how to fix

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New HOWTO....HOWTO-Hose-RedHat-Installation (help!)

Post by Donnie Barn » Mon, 08 Jan 1996 04:00:00



>This was recently discussed in the redhat-list ..you were supposed
>to "install" ..not "upgrade".  I believe Erik posted a suggestion for
>fixing this error.  Check the most recent posts on the redhat-list.


>|> Boy, my early experiences with ELF format and RedHat's RPM format
>|> hasn't been positive.  I wanted to upgrade my shiny new Linux
>|> installation (the GCC stuff), so I ran 'rpm -U' on the following rpm
>|> packages:
>|> gcc-2.7.2-1.i386.rpm
>|> libc-static-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
>|> libc-profile-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
>|> libc-include-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
>|> libc-devel-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
>|> libc-5.2.18-1.i386.rpm
>|>
>|> (In that order, I believe)
>|>
>|> Anyway, rebooting now gives me:
>|>
>|> /sbin/getty: can't load library libtermcap.so.2
>|>
>|> repeatedly.  No bootup :-(
>|>
>|> Am I doing something wrong, or am I putting entirely too much trust in
>|> the RPM utility?
>|>
>|> Any suggestions on how to fix

You need to see:

http://www.redhat.com/mailing-list.html

and search the redhat-list archives.  As was stated, you can't
"upgrade" libc...you need to install over it.

Also, the RPMs in the "devel" tree are NOT to be trusted as
being "upgradable".  That is not safe, nor will it ever be.

--Donnie