I just have a quick question. I don't have time to play with Linux right now, so how do I remove my name from this mailing list?
Thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Hunter Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbies] Installation Education 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 > > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
