On 3/11/03 12:42 AM, "Michael Schwendt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spit this out onto my computer screen:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:15:19 -0800, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote: > >> Hi there - installed mysql, > > Red Hat's packages? Yes - redhat's off of the cd. > >> then updated through up2date... >> >> Then I had a situation where I had to uninstall it... So I did so from the >> packager.... >> >> But it uninstalled the original version, and RPM -qa still shows the newer >> version as installed - yet will not let me uninstall it, or re-install the >> new one.... >> >> Is there a work around for situations like this? > > This is something you would need to demonstrate on the command-line > level. Show us how you query the database, Rpm -qa | grep sql > show how you try to > uninstall the packages. Rpm -e packagename (without the i386,etc - I use the exact results of the query) > A common error is to specify the package > file name instead of the package name. Yes - I have made that error in the past. > > Upgrading MySQL with up2date would upgrade the installed packages > instead of installing a second version in parallel. I don't believe > you got a second installation due to using up2date. This is what I thought. Yet when queried it says it is installed (even though I had removed it originally through redhat-config-packages. I had discovered this when I went to re-install from the cd's... I got a bunch of dependency errors, etc. Dustin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list