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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:06:34 -0800, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote:

> > 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)

No. This is not the info I meant. Show a complete console session as
you type in the commands and get error output. What do "rpm -qa '*sql*'"
and "rpm -e packagename" return? Copy'n'paste from a terminal directly
into your mail.

> > 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.

Show us all this in detail. Show us the dependency errors.

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