[ale] ximian

[Vernard Martin]

On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 09:47, John Wells wrote:
> Made the mistake of installing ximian Gnome on one of
> my RH 7.1 machines.  Now I'd like to uninstall....but
> since ximian is really a different version of Gnome I
> think I'll actually have to remove Gnome and reinstall
> it.
> 
> Has anyone tried this?  Is there a simple way?  Boy,
> wish RedHat had aptget...

I've done this before. Basically did a 
"rpm -qa | grep ximian | xargs rpm --force -e" 
and then re-installed gnome from the redhat CDs.

ximian does NOT unstall gracefully. You pretty much have to trash Gnome
and try again.

I strongly recommend downloading the InDependence package for readhat.
Gives you a transitive closer program to figure out true dependencies on
rpms (rpmtc).
And there is an rpm-get I think

V

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Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu)
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