On 3/11/03 12:42 AM, "Michael Schwendt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spit this out
onto my computer screen:

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> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:15:19 -0800, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote:
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>> Hi there - installed mysql,
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> Red Hat's packages?

Yes - redhat's off of the cd.
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>> 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?
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> 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



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