quota-3.01pre9-0.7.1.i386.rpm

Could use some help on how to install this particular RPM. It has a pre-install script in it, and that is all I can get to run. I can't seem to get the install script itself to run. I've tried with the -i and -ihv commands with and without adding --noscripts
All I get is a check for compatibility with other installed components and a message telling me how much free diskspace is required for the install. It doesn't actually install. Could somebody please tell me which command(s) to use to run the install. Thanks.

Have you run --checksig on it to make sure the RPM is good? Are you running it as root? It's odd that it wouldn't give you any error messages, possibly signs of a poorly written RPM script.

You may want to look in your /tmp directory for any remnants. That's where rpm will usually extract stuff to work on it. You may be able to determine the problem by examining the remnants.

Could you post the exact output of the rpm command?

Here's a little oversight of what I've been trying allong with what happend:

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[root@dg1 /root]# cd /tmp
[root@dg1 /tmp]# rpm --checksig quota-3.01-0.pre9.2.i686.rpm
quota-3.01-0.pre9.2.i686.rpm: md5 OK
[root@dg1 /tmp]# rpm -ihv --noscripts quota-3.01-0.pre9.2.i686.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
installing package quota-3.01-0.pre9.2 needs 150Kb on the / filesystem
[root@dg1 /tmp]# rpm -ihv quota-3.01-0.pre9.2.i686.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
installing package quota-3.01-0.pre9.2 needs 150Kb on the / filesystem
[root@dg1 /tmp]# rpm -U quota-3.01-0.pre9.2.i686.rpm
installing package quota-3.01-0.pre9.2 needs 150Kb on the / filesystem
[root@dg1 /tmp]# rpm -i quota-3.01-0.pre9.2.i686.rpm
installing package quota-3.01-0.pre9.2 needs 150Kb on the / filesystem
[root@dg1 /tmp]# rpm -i --noscripts quota-3.01-0.pre9.2.i686.rpm
installing package quota-3.01-0.pre9.2 needs 150Kb on the / filesystem
[root@dg1 /tmp]# rpm -qa | grep quota
[root@dg1 /tmp]#

All I need is this one RPM installed, and I can get on with installing Ensim. Been in contact with Ensim support, but they don't seem to understand my question, as all they could say was that I needed this RPM installed to run Ensim. I can't say they haven't been trying though :) ...

I think you need to free up 150 KB on your root partition.

That's funny. You sort of implied that it wasn't telling you what the problem was. :)

LOL, I figured it out. It wasn't root that was full, it was the /tmp directory so the rpm couldn't write it's temp files away anywhere. I just misunderstood the error message it gave me, I thought it was just informing me how much room the installation would take. I feel like a mule. Thanks for all your help.

I was down to the second to last RPM required for Ensim when the RPM I was installing crashed my OS :(
I just hope Linux will reboot normally, or I may be looking at a complete OS reinstallation, which I should imagine will cost me $$$. I'm not very hopefull though, as it gave me a message that the core had been dumped just before it went down. Don't ask me how this happend, I installed the RPM just as I have been installing them for about a week, which all went very smoothly...