Dermot Daly wrote:
>Hi All,
>I was trying to remove my mysql package from my system yesterday. I ran
>the necessary command rpm -e -p <package name>
>>This ran overnight, but did not comeplete (with no output).
>>So...This morning I killed the rpm process, and am now tring to re-build
>the rpm database.
>>Command like
>rpm --verbose --initdb or
>rpm --verbose --rebuilddb are producing no output and appear to be doing
>nothing.
>>Is this correct ? Any pointers?
>TIA
>Dermot
>>Are you sure you need to rebuild it? I cant say i'm an rpm expert here.
The -p flag is a query option used to select a file as opposed to an
installed rpm. I've a funny feeling this is your problem - i suspect it
just hung and didn't do anything (i could be way off). try rpm -qa and
see if it gives you a whole list of installed packages. if so and they
look like what you think you got then all is probably well. just do rpm
-e mysql and it should uninstall mysql. the -p flag is unneccessary.
Hope this is all that is wrong. good luck!
John
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