Recently installed packages

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Recently installed packages

Postby zugunder » Aug 15th, '12, 01:36

Hi,

I have a question on the packages, that were installed recently, but that kind of "disappeared". Sounds strange, I know, but here is what happened:

I went to MCC - Hardware - Browse and configure hardware and a pop-up window appeared saying that installation of 2 packages is required: nspluginwrapper and libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio (I do not use pulsaudio and removed it from where possible). I agreed and pretty quickly 10 (!) packages were downloaded and installed. It happened very rapidly, so I only noticed that at least one of them was downloaded from the third party repo, which is connected (but I did not notice the name of the package).
So I ran
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# rpm -qa --last | less
libnspr4-4.9.1-1.mga1                                 
libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.24-1.mga1     
nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-7.mga1                 
libcurl4-7.21.5-1.2.mga1                     
libssh2_1-1.2.8-1.mga1                       
nspluginwrapper-i386-1.3.0-7.mga1           
alsa-plugins-pulse-config-1.0.24-1.mga1
and saw only 7 newly installed packages, including those 2 I was warned about. All 7 are from the official repos, and there are no traces of the rest 3, though I am sure I saw that 10 packages were attempted to download and install. No error messages during installation, nothing at all.
The set of the packages seems to be quite strange, some of them are 64bit, some - 32. I am running Mageia1 64bit.
And, what surprises me most of all - where are the rest 3 of them?

Thank you.

UPD1. Just to make sure the command above displays all the packages from any repo, I installed a couple of programs from third-party repos - and they are displayed in the list correctly.

UPD2. The first package from the list - libnspr4-4.9.1-1.mga1 appeared in the orphan list... Removed it and... nothing happened, I easily can get to MCC - Hardware - Browse and configure hardware, no warnings, all seems to work.
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Re: Recently installed packages

Postby tom_ » Aug 15th, '12, 12:35

try to run

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grep RPM /var/log/syslog
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Re: Recently installed packages

Postby zugunder » Aug 15th, '12, 18:08

Thank you for the tip! But in logs I only see those 7 packages I mentioned before:
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# grep RPM /var/log/syslog
...
Aug 14 17:28:21 localhost rpmdrake[24326]: opening the RPM database
Aug 14 18:11:20 localhost perl: [RPM] alsa-plugins-pulse-config-1.0.24-1.mga1.x86_64 installed
Aug 14 18:11:22 localhost perl: [RPM] nspluginwrapper-i386-1.3.0-7.mga1.x86_64 installed
Aug 14 18:11:23 localhost perl: [RPM] libssh2_1-1.2.8-1.mga1.i586 installed
Aug 14 18:11:23 localhost perl: [RPM] libcurl4-1:7.21.5-1.2.mga1.i586 installed
Aug 14 18:11:25 localhost perl: [RPM] nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-7.mga1.x86_64 installed
Aug 14 18:11:26 localhost perl: [RPM] libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.24-1.mga1.i586 installed
Aug 14 18:11:27 localhost perl: [RPM] libnspr4-2:4.9.1-1.mga1.i586 installed
Aug 14 18:16:59 localhost rpmdrake[28139]: opening the RPM database
...

So it looks like nothing else was actually installed?

UPD.
I removed all 7 packages and went to Hardware section of MCC again. The whole process repeated exactly as before - I saw the process of installation of 10 packages, but found only 7 installed. One of the packages that is not in this list was called "filesystem" and it was from a third-party repo, but it was not installed - the original mga1 package was intact.
Then I removed them again and disabled all third-party repositories and went to Hardware section of MCC once again. This time it was required to install 8 packages, all of them were installed and visible in the log:
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Aug 15 11:17:46 localhost rpmdrake[10859]: opening the RPM database
Aug 15 11:19:40 localhost perl: [RPM] libnspr4-2:4.9.1-1.mga1.i586 installed
Aug 15 11:19:41 localhost perl: [RPM] nspluginwrapper-i386-1.3.0-7.mga1.x86_64 installed
Aug 15 11:19:42 localhost perl: [RPM] alsa-plugins-pulse-config-1.0.24-1.mga1.x86_64 installed
Aug 15 11:19:43 localhost perl: [RPM] libssh2_1-1.2.8-1.mga1.i586 installed
Aug 15 11:19:43 localhost perl: [RPM] libcurl4-1:7.21.5-1.2.mga1.i586 installed
Aug 15 11:19:44 localhost perl: [RPM] libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.24-1.mga1.i586 installed
Aug 15 11:19:45 localhost perl: [RPM] nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-7.mga1.x86_64 installed
Aug 15 11:19:47 localhost perl: [RPM] libnss3-2:3.13.5-1.1.mga1.i586 installed


And this time no orphans were found.

Does anyone have an idea what might have happened?

Thank you.
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