From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-0.1.9 i686) Attempted installation of Applix 5. Applix's install script failed when loading the first package. The command it was attempting was rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --prefix /opt/applix shelf-bin-shelf-base-2.2-315.i386.rpm The error sent by the rpm command was: 1:shelf-bin-shelf-base error: can't unlink /optapplix-RPMDELETE: Is a directory Installation was successfull when the --prefix option was removed from the rpm command line, even though the package default location was the same as that specified by --prefix. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. command as shown above (I didn't try it with other packages). 2. 3.
What version of rpm? Try "rpm -q rpm" ...
rpm version 4.0.2-0.38
Using --prefix is the same error as using --relocate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25876 ***