Mobeen Azhar wrote:
>
> Hello all, I had a few packages that I installed from binary RPMS. Later on
> I downloaded the sources for those packages (newer version than what was
> available as RPMs), compiled them, and installed them manually. However,
> the entries for the RPM still show up in rpm -qa. I would like to remove
> those entries from the RPM database (I assume that is where RPM stores them,
> I am a relative Linux newbie) without having RPM attempt to delete any of
> the associated files, since some of the files come from my build and are
> needed. Is there any easy way to do this, other than to un-install the RPM,
> then re-install from source?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> --Moby
>
Did you uninstall the original rpm's (rpm -e package-name) before
installing the newer versions? ICBW, but it sounds to me like you've
probably got the original version and the new version installed if you
didn't either uninstall or upgrade using rpm (which you said you
didn't).
If you try to rpm -e now I'd be careful that you don't lose
configuration files!
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Mike Rambo
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