[ale] Excite for linux

gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu
Fri Aug 22 12:23:28 EDT 1997


On 22 Aug, Mir Shafiqul Islam wrote:
> Thanks locate libdb does not find anything on the system. But when I
> tried to install the package db-devel-1.85-11 rpm said that it was already
> installed ! And tehn tried to uninstall it and then rpm said it can not be
> uninstalled ! Any idea how to get around this ? I recently upgraded from
> 4.1 to 4.2.

"rpm -e --force" or "rpm -e --nodeps" should get rid of it. 
Preferably, however, just do a forced re-install by "rpm -Uvh --force"

BTW, you need both db-1.85 and db-devel-1.85.  db provides the library,
while db-devel provides headers and such.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu






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