On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:17:47AM -0500, Devon wrote: > On Sunday 03 February 2002 04:45 am, Nick Wilson wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm getting error whenever I try to do anything with rpm. > > How can I completely remove anything to do with it and start over? > > > > At this point *any* suggestions are welcome. > > Sorry, I missed the start of this thread. > > Your best bet is to track down the problem with RPM. > > Even if you do manage to un-install it, without RPM, reinstalling it > without rpm will be tricky. I've never tried, but I doubt rpm will > happily uninstall itself, even if it were working.
Actually, rpm will uninstall itself - been there, done that :-(. I had a problem with what looked like multiple copies of rpm being installed, so I installed one and shot myself in the foot. Luckily I was able to just ftp a copy of the rpm executable from another system and install the rpm package from that. I agree that tracking down the problem is what you want to do. Having a corrupt rpm database or missing items in the database is no fun since you'll have all sorts of dependency problems that will get you later on, and you'll naturally have problems with up2date. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
