Subject: Re: RPM upgrade install glitch with RH71 (Gnome vers)
From: Reuben D Budiardja (reubendb@goshen.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 14:33:49 CST
RPM reads the package information from rpm-database. If you want to uninstal
a package, you can't just delete the directory. You need to un-install using
rpm also, so that the rpm-db got update to. This will uninstall the package:
rpm -e package_name.
Try to get the currently "installed" abiword package using
rpm -q abiword.
uninstall that, and then install the abiword-gnome using rpm -ivh
package_name.rpm
hope that helps.
rdb
On Thursday 22 November 2001 10:47 am, Damion Waller wrote:
> I recently installed abiword-gtk-0.9.4.1.src.rpm but
> decided I wanted to upgrade to the
> abiword-gnome-RH7.1-0.9.4.1-1.i386.rpm (Gnome
> Support).
>
> Anyway, the gnome -Uiv *.rpm install craps out upon
> the upgrade saying the Abiword version installed
> conflicts or is the same as the upgraded version. I
> deleted the initial Abiword install directories
> including the /usr/bin/abiword exec, still I cannot
> install the new version. Plus if I try to downgrade
> and install a lower version number, it says that the
> install is older than the installed version of Abiword
> and terminates, argh#.
>
> Any ideas where the rpm is reading this info from, for
> the life of me, abiword is no longer on my RH71 box,
> but it's getting the dir/version number from somewhere
> ??
> I tried to grep | abiword and even this tells me that
> the abiword dir. is no longer found..confused and
> dazed in abiland..my P200 shudders at the thought of
> having to go back to starofficebloat 5.1
>
> -Damion
>
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