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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: Reggae on August 08, 2006, 04:51:34 PM

Title: uninstall of old antivirus and spamassassin
Post by: Reggae on August 08, 2006, 04:51:34 PM

I've just updated an old 6.1 to 7.0 but didn't uninstall Swert-Knudsens antivirus and spamassassin. Now i've got both the new and the old running or so i think, and the web-panels of the old ones don't work.
Now what?

Title: uninstall of old antivirus and spamassassin
Post by: byte on August 08, 2006, 11:12:50 PM

You will need to uninstall the swert-knudsens versions as the panels from that package will not work with SME 7.0

Title: uninstall of old antivirus and spamassassin
Post by: Reggae on August 09, 2006, 12:09:02 AM

ok
And how do I do that?

Title: uninstall of old antivirus and spamassassin
Post by: raem on August 09, 2006, 11:35:25 AM

Reggae

> And how do I do that?

Follow the install.sh scripts for each contrib in reverse, but use
rpm -e packagename (without the numbers)
to uninstall the various rpms

Title: uninstall of old antivirus and spamassassin
Post by: Reggae on August 09, 2006, 01:14:10 PM

Thanks
But where do I find the install scripts?
I know they came from Swert-Knudsen, but that was 2 years ago  :-(
Can I just use the current one?
Will this ruin the new standard 7.0 installations?

Title: uninstall of old antivirus and spamassassin
Post by: raem on August 09, 2006, 01:45:58 PM

Reggae

> But where do I find the install scripts?
> I know they came from Swert-Knudsen, but that was 2 years ago  :-(

They are still at the same place

> Can I just use the current one?

They may be similar but the rpm names may be different.
If you have regularly updated your installs when new releases came from swerts, then you should have the current scripts rpms installed anyway.

Keep in mind this is a manual operation, you are going to read the install scripts in reverse and manually uninstall rpms.


> Will this ruin the new standard 7.0 installations?

The correct procedure was to uninstall incompatible rpms before you upgraded to sme7, there have been so many warnings posted about this, they would be hard to miss. Any custom templates should also have been removed prior to the upgrade.

I can't say for sure what will happen. If the rpms are not used in sme7 then it should be OK, as long as they uninstall cleanly and don't leave orphaned db entries or templates behind.

Title: uninstall of old antivirus and spamassassin
Post by: Reggae on August 09, 2006, 01:57:04 PM

Ok, found the scripts and will give it a try.
Thanks for all your help