Topic: How do I re-install Dansguardian in linux?

[ben2church]

I am new to linux.  My SME has been up and running for a month or so.  Works excellent with W2K roaming profiles!

I went to install Dansguardian from the excellent guide Ray Mitchell put in the how tos.  I accidently saved over the dansguardian.conf file when in pico and decided to just re-install the program so to get the original file back.  Easier said than done for a newbie.

I removed the dansguardian directory including sub-directories and files.  From what I had read online, remove is like uninstalling in Windows.  The problem is that when I tried to re-install the rpm for Dansguardian, it says it is already installed, not realizing I have removed the guts of the program.

I have tried re-install by update, freshen, and updatepkgs commands and all fail.  Even deleting the rpm and downloading again doesn't get it done.

If anyone knows what else I need to remove so that RH7 understands that the program has been uninstalled and I can install again, please, please let me know.  Thanks so much for your help!

[raem]

ben2church

The correct way to uninstall an rpm is
(eg for DansGuardian-2.6.1-3.RH72.i386.rpm)

rpm -e DansGuardian

Now if you have been manually deleting bits & got things in a mess, I would suggest a forced install
eg
rpm -Uvh --force DansGuardian-2.6.1-3.RH72.i386.rpm


See also
man rpm
for further usage
Also see some of the online references regarding the rpm command, search Google