You should not have to reinstall linux.
I setup FP once. If I recall correctly it was just a shell script that
installed it. You should be able to easily deinstall all files by
following the script.
Same for the Apache rpm. If you don't trust the rpm -e, first do a rpm -ql
and dump th eoutput to a file, Then manually verify the files are gone, or
change the rpm output to be a script to remove the files - something like
rpm -ql apache > file.lst
perl -ni -e 'print "rm -f $_"' file.lst
sh file.lst
hth
charles
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Frank Reichenbacher wrote:
> > Dear Listers,
> >
> > Being a newbie I probably shouldn't have tried to install the FP extension
> > without more closely studying the install package, but I did, and there it
> > is, a smoking mess. The FP install script overwrote the original Apache
> > httpd daemon (the vers. that comes on the RH 6.2 cd) and has rendered my
> > httpd services inoperable. In addition, FP created and chowned numerous
> > directories, each corresponding to a different attempt to reinstall the FP
> > extensions in a new location.
> >
> > I need to start over first with Apache and then re-attempt the FP ext. after
> > more careful research. The Apache rpm won't uninstall or reinstall or
> > install because of the mods to the daemon, I get a message that it either is
> > or isn't aleady installed. --force appears to work, but somehow the original
> > daemon isn't set up again, just isn't there.
> >
> > First, can I get rid of every trace of the FP ext. by deleting these
> > directories one by one?
> >
> > Then, how do I get rid of the Apache package so I can reinstall from
> > scratch?
> >
> My solution ( I tried a variant of the FP which only partially
> worked) was to reinstall linux from scratch. It worked. :-)
> John
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