Problems with removing package

[lmoreira]

Hi all,
I am very new to Linux and as such I am making a lot of mistakes...
I installed GCC for the blackFin processor but it was the wrong one, so I tryed to remove it to install the correct one...
I went to the /opt directory and did: rm -rf uClinux, this removed all the files and directories. But when I downloaded the correct RPM package and tryed to install it, i got the message " package alredy installed".
the package is not there as I deleted it but some part of the system must keep track of the packages installed and it still thinks the package is there.
can some one tell me how to remove this information.
thanks
Luis

[Firewing1]

You shouldn't remove files manually. Use RPM...
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/
See that site for info on how to use it...
You're looking for
rpm -e pkgname
to remove the package. (Type that in a terminal as root) To install a package, type
rpm -Uhv /path/to/file.rpm
Firewing1

[tomcat]

Run as root in a terminal

updatedb

this will ... well... update your system database. Maybe it will stop your system telling that the package is already installed. If you have trouble installing the new package, try e.g. with a forced install (rpm -i blablabla --force).

[lmoreira]

Hi Firewing,
Thank you very much, that did the job and now I know how to do it properly.
thank you also Tomcat for your help.
best regards
Luis

[circulus]

Originally Posted by tomcat

Run as root in a terminal

updatedb

this will ... well... update your system database. Maybe it will stop your system telling that the package is already installed. If you have trouble installing the new package, try e.g. with a forced install (rpm -i blablabla --force).

Command "updatedb" don't have any context with rpm database. "updatedb" command updates the slocate database and don't changing anything in rpm database of installed packages. You ma have in mind command "rpm --rebuilddb" ?

[Adesso]

Either way... how would you remove a couple of rpms .. like httpd for instance. How could I remove httpd and the required other modules in one line. If I say rpm -e httpd* it tells me not installed.. but if I try httpd only, it gives me all the modules that require it.

[Firewing1]

do
# rpm -e httpd* --allmatches
I remeber being annoyed trying to get all matches or pkgname* to work, do fiddle with it for a while... (# man rpm)!
if u know the names u wanna remove, type this:
rpm -e pkg1 pkg2 pkg3
this will remove pkg1, 2 and 3 at once. BTW, you can do this:
rpm -qa | grep -i httpd
to get a list of anything related to httpd. then just remove those manually.

Firewing1

[Adesso]

seems like it did the trick. I only did this cause the package manager refused to uninstall the Web server section after it was installed, whinning about php-pear and the like.

I am forced to do a manual Apache, MySql and PHP install as I need mysql_connect and stuff in my PHP source code.. Little hostile for web developer to get going in Fedora 4.

Thanks for the help anyhow.. that was real fast..