On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:07:19PM -0400, Eileen Orbell wrote:
> What is the best way to unistall a RPM. I tried rpm -e filename
> but get a error message "cannot remove filename directory not empty.
> Should I delete the contents of the directory first?
After you get those errors, try "rpm -q [package-name]", you'll usually find
that rpm removed most of the package as well as its entry in the rpm database.
The files it leaves behind are usually files which aren't part of the original
package, such as user-added data or files automatically generated during the
life of the software. If you're sure you don't need the contents of the
non-empty directory, yeah, you can usually delete it by hand. I usually wait
until after the rpm -e process completes successfully though.
> Also I have noticed when I try to upgrade a RPM I get conflict error
> messages. Example is upgrading Perl from 5.00503-10 to 5.00503-12 I get
> this error
> file /usr/man/man1/pod2man.html.1.gz conflict with early install from
> perl-5.00503
Hm. What options do you give rpm? -U? Or something else? This is exactly
the sort of thing that rpm is supposed to take care of for you...
-m
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