Updating the BDI2.04

[Jack Ensor <jensor-at-qis.net>]

I have run through various agonies in trying to get updated.  As
usual if something is amiss when you are doing something new it leads
to confusion.

I down loaded rcslib-rtl3_0-2_10_i586.rpm and
emc-rtl3_0-2_10_i586.rpm.

To install these rpms I issued the command:

rpm -ivh rcslib-rtl3_0-2_10_i586.rpm

and get a message saying failed dependency rtlinux-3.0 is needed

I then do :

rpm -ivh --nodeps rcslib-rtl3_0-2_10_i586.rpm

and get message:

rcslib-rtl3.0-2.10 is already installed

Now is this a normal response?  The indications seem to imply there
is a big problem here.  I ignore it and go on with:

rpm -ivh emc-rtl3_0-2_10_i586.rpm

and get message

failed dependencies

Then I do:

rpm -ivh --nodeps emc-rtl3_0-2_10_i586.rpm

and get about 45 messages typically reading:

emc/generic.ini from emc-rtl3.0-2.10 conflicts with file 
       from package  emc-rtl3.0-2

and on and on files that are in /emc and emc/plat families.

Is this a normal response?  These error messages are very
intimidating to a newbie.

Going on I look in the emc directory at some of the files there and
apparently the old files are still there with a .bak appended to
them.  And the new files are in there with today's date on them
taking the place of the old files.  Now should I, in the interest of
keeping a clean and uncluttered house remove the .bak files?

I tried running ./emc.run and it seems that it works okay although
using home didn't seem to work as before - it seemed to drift around
- I attribute this to  something not right in the ini file - I
haven't studied that yet.

Now in the interest of keeping an accurate log for documentation
purposes,  I would appreciate any comments on these problems.  Is
this normal behavior for Linux?  Does one have to learn when and/or
which error messages may be ignored?

Jack Ensor

Jack Ensor