On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 20:53, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 01 October 2002 09:17 pm, Gerry Tool wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 20:00, Neil Hodge wrote: > > > Check out > > > > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/core*.sh > > > > Thanks, that did it. However, while messing around, I found that when > > I tried to install the downloaded rpms a second time, it told me they > > were already installed. Then when using rpm -e to uninstall them, rpm > > replies that they are not installed. Do you know what causes this > > behavior in rpm? If I want to remove these rpms, what do I need to do? > > What command did you use, exactly, to try the uninstall? > 'rpm -e xf86-corefonts' should work, while 'rpm -e > xf86-corefonts-0.1-5.noarch.rpm', or variations on that will not. > > The rpms work here, and I can't duplicate this behavior. The > xf86-corefonts package installs the actual MS font files and the install > script. The fonts are extracted and made available to the system via the > install script. Uninstalling the package removes the script, the MS > font.exe files, and the docs. If you have run the install script, > uninstalling the package does not remove the installed fonts. The > installed fonts will be found in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ > > Hope that helps, > - -- > - -Michael
Yes, that was the problem. I don't use the rpm command line often enough to remember to stop the name of the package before the version number. As I replied to you in another branch, all is now working fine - thanks for responding. -- gerry _____ 0/0 /__
