weird RPM problem

[iamroot 0]

Many times when i download an rpm from freshrpms.net or rpmfind.net like firefox and mplayer, the installation window comes up for a few seconds and then it disppears. How can i fix it?

[danleff 0]

This often comes up when the rpm file is not compatible with your distro. Are you choosing rpm's specific for your distro and version, or just picking rpm's?

 

Also, are you choosing the US sites or other rpmfind (euro) sites to download the rpm's?

[Dapper Dan 0]

This also happens a lot in RedHats 8, 9 and Fedora. Save yourself some grief by opening a terminal and as root go:

 

rpm -ivh bobs_widget_set.rh.i386.rpm [enter]

 

or if upgrading..

 

rpm -Uvh bobs_widget_set.rh.i386.rpm [enter]

 

 

 

And it should install without incident.