[CentOS] SuperOdoctor for super-micro

Fri Jun 9 12:36:28 UTC 2006
Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net>


Johnny Hughes wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:56 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:
>  
>
>>Rats... found some hardware monitoring from the vendor and it's broken, 
>>or I'm missing some pieces.  No mention of CentOS specifically, but RH 
>>is supported, so figured it *ought* to work.  I'm apparently missing a 
>>library -- liblinc.so.1, and a net search reveals several sources, both 
>>for x86 and 64-bit.  Tried them both, after the x86 did not work, and 
>>the 64-bit I thought was going to work, but it crashes the application 
>>under gnome, and under text.  Yes, I did the bad thing (tm) and 
>>installed an rpm not from yum, and now, I can't seem to make rpm remove 
>>it.  Says it's not installed, but it is.  Rebuilt the database and still 
>>says it's already installed when I tried to reinstall it, but says it's 
>>NOT installed when I try to remove it ...hmmmph.  I know where the rm -f 
>>keys are :-) 
>>
>>Question to the gang.  Anybody have this software working on a 
>>supermicro board, and if so, what did you do to get it going?
>>
>>Thanks...
>>
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>>
>If you can get a filelist for the package and remove the files, then you
>can remove the entry in the database with:
>
>rpm -e --justdb 
>
>Looks like that package is in CentOS-3.x (linc) so I would try building
>it from the SRPM on CentOS-4 and see if that works for you.   That file
>is no longer in CentOS-4 or FC>3.
>  
>
Thanks for the heads up Johnny.  I'll see if I can build it.

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