Trouble with RPM install/uninstall (What is -y ?)

[Stephen W]

--- Michael Schwendt <fedora at wir-sind-cool.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:31:22 -0700 (PDT), Stephen W
> wrote:
> 
> > Using RedHat 9.0
> > 
> > Tried to install xine ... missing dependencies... 
> > kept going... 
> > finally learned of and began to use apt/synaptic.
> > 
> > Now told there are two versions of xinetd
> installed
> > and I would have problems... 
> > 
> > tried to uninstall xine and then xinetd and here
> are
> > the results...

... snip ...

> 
> rpm --query --all 'xine*'
> 
> > D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
> > D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> > D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> > 
> > 
> > Now what do I do 
> 
> Not easy, since you may need to clean up the xinetd
> installation and even
> break dependencies while uninstalling the packages.
> First note, that
> xinetd is not related to xine.
> 
> To uninstall both xinetd packages, run:
> 
>   rpm -e --allmatches xinetd
> 
> Most likely, this will fail due to dependencies
> which need xinetd, then
> run:
> 
>   rpm -e --allmatches --nodeps xinetd
> 
> Then re-install xinetd with your favourite package
> tool (e.g. yum -y
> install xinetd).

xinetd probably came through the apt install.  (I have
not tried yum.)

If I run apt again I suppose I would use the -U

Thanks
StephenW


		
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