Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac
Jeff--- Thanks! I tried this but my installation (which has been through three different laptops and three Mac OS upgrades) is pretty broken: rpm -qal -- error: cannot open Packages(0) index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/local/lib/rpm at this point I'm not even sure if I actually installed any RPMs. Regardless, I need to get rid of any such packages and RPM itself. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: Again redirect that output to a file, examine, and remove package by package using rpm -q PKG --^^ -e or --erase of course: its 3am here. for each PKG listed. 73 de Jeff __ RPM Package Managerhttp://rpm5.org User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org
Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac
Thanks, that's something to work with! I'm trying it out right now Nick. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Nicholas Chubrich nchubr...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff--- Thanks! I tried this but my installation (which has been through three different laptops and three Mac OS upgrades) is pretty broken: rpm -qal -- error: cannot open Packages(0) index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/local/lib/rpm Then you likely only need to remove rpm. I haven't any idea what --prefix was passed into rpm or where this version comes from. But with --prefix=/usr, the main directories in use by rpm are /usr/lib/rpm/ /var/lib/rpm/ Development directories/files with --prefix=/usr are /usr/include/rpm/ /usr/lib/librpm* Executables are /bin/rpm /usr/bin/rpm* There's man pages and locales and python/perl modules which will have rpm in name like find /usr/local -name '*rpm*' which is likely a good information gathering starting point. RPM (and likely nothing else) uses libbeecrypt. hth 73 de Jeff at this point I'm not even sure if I actually installed any RPMs. Regardless, I need to get rid of any such packages and RPM itself. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: Again redirect that output to a file, examine, and remove package by package using rpm -q PKG --^^ -e or --erase of course: its 3am here. for each PKG listed. 73 de Jeff __ RPM Package Managerhttp://rpm5.org User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org
Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac
Looks like my exposure was limited to /usr/local for the most part, but I got peace of mind from checking those other directories too. And now brew works (so far). Thanks for helping! On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Nicholas Chubrich nchubr...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks, that's something to work with! I'm trying it out right now Nick. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Nicholas Chubrich nchubr...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff--- Thanks! I tried this but my installation (which has been through three different laptops and three Mac OS upgrades) is pretty broken: rpm -qal -- error: cannot open Packages(0) index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/local/lib/rpm Then you likely only need to remove rpm. I haven't any idea what --prefix was passed into rpm or where this version comes from. But with --prefix=/usr, the main directories in use by rpm are /usr/lib/rpm/ /var/lib/rpm/ Development directories/files with --prefix=/usr are /usr/include/rpm/ /usr/lib/librpm* Executables are /bin/rpm /usr/bin/rpm* There's man pages and locales and python/perl modules which will have rpm in name like find /usr/local -name '*rpm*' which is likely a good information gathering starting point. RPM (and likely nothing else) uses libbeecrypt. hth 73 de Jeff at this point I'm not even sure if I actually installed any RPMs. Regardless, I need to get rid of any such packages and RPM itself. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com wrote: Again redirect that output to a file, examine, and remove package by package using rpm -q PKG --^^ -e or --erase of course: its 3am here. for each PKG listed. 73 de Jeff __ RPM Package Managerhttp://rpm5.org User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org
