Thanks, that's something to work with! I'm trying it out right now---- Nick.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org >> User Communication List [email protected] >> > > >
