# Cannot install Suse 10 SP4 readline-devel

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/cannot-install-suse-10-sp4-readline-devel/29899>\
**Category:** SLES Install-Boot\
**Created:** [June 9, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cannot-install-suse-10-sp4-readline-devel/29899 "2017-06-09T18:33:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![slesmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@slesmaster](https://forums.suse.com/u/slesmaster)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cannot-install-suse-10-sp4-readline-devel/29899/1 "2017-06-09T18:33:39Z")

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Dear all,

Host OS: Windows 10  
Guest OS Suse 10 SP4  
Virtualization: Virtualbox 5.1.12r112440

I’ve already installed Suse 10 SP 4 in virtualbox. When I try to install readline-devel, it gives me the following error:

```auto
suse10sp4-10205-12102:~ # zypper install readline-devel
Restoring system sources...
Parsing metadata for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4...
Parsing RPM database...
Summary:
<install> [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64
Continue? [y/n]: y
Downloading: [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64, 145.5 K(567.6 K unpacked)
Installing: [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64
[S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64 Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed:

Invalid object
Invalid object
Installing: [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64
[S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64 Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed:

(with nodeps)Invalid object
(with nodeps)Invalid object
Installing: [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64
[S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64 Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed:

(with nodeps+force)Invalid object
(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore?
```

readline is already installed

```auto
suse10sp4-10205-12102:~ # rpm -qa readline
readline-5.1-24.26.20
```

Whats should I do to install readline-devel?

While I understand that most likely Suse10 is already out of support, but since my customer is still in Suse 10, I’ve to simulate according to their specifications.

thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cannot-install-suse-10-sp4-readline-devel/29899/2 "2017-06-09T20:49:20Z")

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[QUOTE=slesmaster;38210]Dear all,

Host OS: Windows 10  
Guest OS Suse 10 SP4  
Virtualization: Virtualbox 5.1.12r112440

I’ve already installed Suse 10 SP 4 in virtualbox. When I try to install readline-devel, it gives me the following error:

```auto
suse10sp4-10205-12102:~ # zypper install readline-devel
Restoring system sources...
Parsing metadata for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4...
Parsing RPM database...
Summary:
<install> [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64
Continue? [y/n]: y
Downloading: [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64, 145.5 K(567.6 K unpacked)
Installing: [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64
[S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64 Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed:

Invalid object
Invalid object
Installing: [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64
[S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64 Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed:

(with nodeps)Invalid object
(with nodeps)Invalid object
Installing: [S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64
[S1:1][package]readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64 Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed:

(with nodeps+force)Invalid object
(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore?
```

readline is already installed

```auto
suse10sp4-10205-12102:~ # rpm -qa readline
readline-5.1-24.26.20
```

Whats should I do to install readline-devel?

While I understand that most likely Suse10 is already out of support, but since my customer is still in Suse 10, I’ve to simulate according to their specifications.

thanks a lot![/QUOTE]  
Hi  
Try rpm to install rather than zypper, maybe the rpm database needs a clean as well;

```auto
rpm --rebuilddb
```

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**Author:** ![slesmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@slesmaster](https://forums.suse.com/u/slesmaster)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cannot-install-suse-10-sp4-readline-devel/29899/3 "2017-06-11T11:03:56Z")

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Dear malcom,

when I try to install by rpm the following pops up

```auto
suse10sp4-10205-12102:~/download/readline-devel # df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/system-root
                       8169472 2924096 5245376 36% /
udev 2026836 140 2026696 1% /dev
/dev/sda1 155808 17504 138304 12% /boot
Segmentation fault

 rpm -ivh readline-devel-5.1-24.26.20.x86_64.rpm
Segmentation fault
```

```auto
suse10sp4-10205-12102:~/download/readline-devel # df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/system-root
                       8169472 2924096 5245376 36% /
udev 2026836 140 2026696 1% /dev
/dev/sda1 155808 17504 138304 12% /boot
Segmentation fault
```

what should I do to resolve the segmentation fault error?

thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cannot-install-suse-10-sp4-readline-devel/29899/4 "2017-06-12T05:42:33Z")

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Hi  
Not sure why your seeing that, could be SLES 10 SP4 being old and doesn’t like something with virtualbox.

If you boot to init 1 and run a filesystem check on / and /boot.

Run df through gdb may provide further info;

```auto
gdb df
...
....
......
(gdb) run <press enter>
```