Awesome!  I did this, ran the simulated apt-get removal and it would
uninstall the entire thing if I wanted.  Many thanks.

<voice character="BillandTed">Excellent!</voice>

Andrew


On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 08:44, Corey Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 22:29, Andrew Hunter wrote:
> > Regrettably, I am uncertain of how to deal with this.  I suspect that
> > the first 2 errors listed began with my unnecessary installation of the
> > print utility, but the others I know nothing about. Suggestions? 
> 
> My RPM skills are a little rusty, but try this. 'rpm -qa |grep
> gimp-print' should list all versions of gimp-print installed. Let's say
> you have two versions, 1.0 and 1.2. To uninstall 1.0 you'll run the
> command 'rpm -e gimp-print-1.0' with the full name including the
> version.
> 
> In case you're curious why apt puked like that, it's because apt was
> orignally developed for the Debian dpkg system which doesn't allow
> multiple versions of the same package to be installed where RPM does.
> 
> > Mockery?
> 
> <voice character="Nelson">Ha, ha!</voice>
> 
> Corey
> 
> 



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