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Title: rpm "database"?
Post by: atlantis on April 28, 2004, 08:33:31 PM

Hi,

I had an rpm I wanted to unistall but it wouldn't, rpm -e just said it wasn't installed even though it was... Therefore I decided to uninstall it the hard way and deleted all installed files. But how do I now make clear to rpm that that package isn't there anymore and that rpm -qa doesn't show it any more? Somewhere rpm stores some information about installed packages but I didn't find out where yet, can anybody help?

Regards
Martin

Title: rpm "database"?
Post by: ergozd on April 28, 2004, 08:46:49 PM

The rpmdb is stored at
# /var/lib/rpm


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Title: rpmdb
Post by: atlantis on April 28, 2004, 09:30:15 PM

Well thanks for the info, but how the heck do I now edit these files?

Regards
Martin

Title: rpm "database"?
Post by: mbachmann on April 29, 2004, 09:37:52 AM

You should not. They look like binaries.

Are you sure you use the correct syntax? Are you sure you used rpm and not yum to install?

If you have samba-common-2.2.8a-1es1.i386.rpm installed, uninstall with

rpm -e samba-common-2.2.8a-1es1

Just post the name of the rpm you wish to remove.