<div>On 22/09/06, Paul Howarth <<a href="mailto:paul@city-fan.org">paul@city-fan.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Alastair McKinley wrote: > Thanks David, Paul and Robin for your help! Still no joy! Heres an update, > > Firstly i tried: > > rpm -e --nodeps python python- 2.4.3-8.FC4.i386.rpm</blockquote> <div> Hi Paul, Yes sorry I retyped the command just for the email and messed it up. Heres what I did do. [root@d6173 alastair]# history | grep nodeps 412 rpm -e --nodeps python-2.4.3-8.FC4 503 history | grep nodeps [root@d6173 alastair]# /usr/bin/python Python 2.4.1 (#2, May 3 2005, 17:14:18) [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The python-2.4.3-8.FC4.i386.rpm would have no effect at all. "rpm -e" takes a package name as an argument, not a filename. You already gave the package name straight after the "--nodeps" > and: > rpm -i --force python-2.4.3-8.FC4.i386.rpm The --force shouldn't be needed here, since there shouldn't be any conflicts. Try to avoid using --nodeps and --force unless really needed. > [root@d6173 sh]# rpm -V python-2.4.3-8.FC4 > ..?..... /usr/lib/python2.4/bsddb/test/__init__.py > ..?..... /usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/__init__.py If you run /usr/bin/python, does it claim to be python 2.4.1 or python 2.4.3?</blockquote><div> [root@d6173 alastair]# /usr/bin/python Python 2.4.1 (#2, May 3 2005, 17:14:18) [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Paul.</blockquote><div> </div> </div>Best regards and thanks, Alastair