Thanks that fixed my error the -U and also thanks for clearing up the rpm
removal query..
At 01:18 PM 9/22/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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...
>
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