rpm -e doesn't work, says that the package is not installed. rpm -i doesn't
work, says the package is already installed. rpm -q doesn't work, says the
package is not installed. rpm -v brings back error messages (I'm not at the
machine so I can't check it out).
Frank Reichenbacher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Galpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Zotz the Frontpage Extensions
> 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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