On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, 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?
That should just be a warning. Try do a rpm -q rpmname afterwards. You
should find it is no longer installed. You can then delete the directory
or it's contents afterwards.
> 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
How are you doing the upgrade. You should use -U (or -Uvh to get more
feedback)
hth
charles
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