>Hello, all!
>
>I have two problems at the moment. hopefully, someone can help me. ;-)
>
>1. i am having a problem with my RPM database. specifically, i have tried
>to uninstall some packages (e.g. gtk-0.99.970925-2) because i am having
>problems getting control-panel to work. this will be detailed in problem
>2. anyway, when i try "rpm -e" it says that gtk is not installed but an
>"rpm -qa | grep gtk " says it is. so, i can't uninstall it. so i tried to
>install it using "rpm -i" but it says that the package is installed
>already...so i do an "rpm -i --force" and it goes on but the problems
>listed above remain. hmmm...
>is there a program out there that repairs the rpm database? i have looked
>at the rpm repository at rufus.w3.org but no luck.
>
>2. I no longer seem to be able to run control-panel. i can run the
>individual programs in it, though. when i do try, it reports an error:
> Undefined symbol: gtk_tooltips_set_tools
>
>i looked through the header files and it seems to be defined there. i
>thought it might be a problem with the gtk and gtk-devel packages, or maybe
>the control-panel rpm so i force installed them due to problem 1 above.
>but this has not helped.
>
>any help would be appreciated. ;-)
>
>thanks,
>
>adrian b.
>
It's not clear to me from what you've written what syntax you're using to
uninstall the gtk package: are you using rpm -e gtk-0.99.970925-2, or are
you just using rpm -e gtk, which would be the proper syntax to uninstall a
package? Why just gtk for the package name? Because it resolves any issues
about package names and changes that occurred if you upgraded the package.
You can update the database by, and I can't remember the rpm command switch
to do that but man rpm will contain the answer to that one.
James
