[PlanetCCRMA] planet ccrma for RedHat 9
Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Thu May 8 10:43:01 PDT 2003
> > I'm trying to install on top of a fresh Red Hat 9 installation. Here is
> > what happened:
>
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> > Executing RPM (-ivh)...
> > Preparing... ###########################################
> > [100%]
> > package kernel-2.4.20-8 (which is newer than
> > kernel-2.4.20-4.ll.acpi) is already installed
> > E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (1)
> > [root at penguin root]#
> > ____________________________________________________________________________
> > ______
> >
> > I would be very grateful for an explanation of what I am doing wrong.
>
> try
>
> rpm -U --oldpackage \
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel#2.4.20-4.ll.acpi_2.4.20-4.ll.acpi_i686.rpm
Don't!
You don't want to "U"pgrade a kernel, that will erase previous kernels,
you want to always use the "i" option to rpm when installing kernels.
-- Fernando
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