Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac

2012-04-29 Thread Anders F Björklund
Nicholas Chubrich wrote: From lsbom it looks like there were some things in /private once, but no more. The Python packages are also gone. The Perl package is still there, and I wonder if I should leave it alone or get rid of it (would there be any non-RPM dependencies it might break?).

Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac

2012-04-27 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Apr 27, 2012, at 1:49 AM, Nicholas Chubrich nchubr...@gmail.com wrote: I have an old RPM 5.1 installation (most of it seems to be in /usr/local) that I need to remove. I believe it was installed using a DMG installer. Can anyone suggest a way to cleanly and completely uninstall it?

Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac

2012-04-27 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
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

Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac

2012-04-27 Thread Nicholas Chubrich
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

Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac

2012-04-27 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
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

Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac

2012-04-27 Thread Nicholas Chubrich
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

Re: uninstalling old RPM 5.1 from Mac

2012-04-27 Thread Nicholas Chubrich
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