[Techtalk] Red Hat Network certificate

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:00, Hanlie Pretorius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use RH8 and Gnome and I post this to the list because I'm not a paying
> RH customer and therefore not entitled to technical support.
> 
> I got a message from RHN stating that their security certificate has
> expired, which means I have to update the software that connects to RHN
> and then updates my system from time to time.
> 
> I downloaded two up2date RPMs and did the checksums - they were fine. 
> 
> However, when I run the rpm cmmand as shown on their website (logged in
> as root and in the same directory as the one to which I saved the
> files):
> rpm -Fvh up2date-3.0.7.2-1.i386.rpm up2date-gnome-3.0.7.2-1.i386.rpm
> rhn_register-3.0.7.2-1.i386.rpm rhn_register-gnome-3.0.7.2-1.i386.rpm
> 
> I get an error stating:
> error: open of rhn_register-3.0.7.2-1.i386.rpm failed: No such file or
> directoryerror: open of rhn_register-gnome-3.0.7.2-1.i386.rpm failed: No
> such file or directory
> 
> For clarity's sake, I include a listing of the files in the directory
> where I downloaded the RPMs:
> up2date-3.0.7.2-1.i386.rpm
> up2date-gnome-3.0.7.2-1.i386.rpm

The error message is telling you exactly what is wrong here: the rpm
command is trying to freshen the rpms up2date, up2date-gnome,
rhn_register and rhn_register-gnome. You have only downloaded the first
two files, so rpm is complaining that the latter two do not exist.

Either remove the last two files from the rpm command line (which means
they will not be upgraded), or download the two extra rpms.

Cheers,
Malcolm