On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Nicholas Chubrich <[email protected]> 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 file or
> directory (2)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/local/lib/rpm
>
Then you likely only need to remove rpm.
I haven't any idea what --prefix was passed into rpm
or where this version comes from.
But with --prefix=/usr, the main directories in use by rpm are
/usr/lib/rpm/
/var/lib/rpm/
Development directories/files with --prefix=/usr are
/usr/include/rpm/
/usr/lib/librpm*
Executables are
/bin/rpm
/usr/bin/rpm*
There's man pages and locales and python/perl modules which will have rpm in
name like
find /usr/local -name '*rpm*'
which is likely a good information gathering starting point.
RPM (and likely nothing else) uses libbeecrypt.
hth
73 de Jeff
> at this point I'm not even sure if I actually installed any RPMs.
> Regardless, I need to get rid of any such packages and RPM itself.
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> 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
>
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