Looks like my exposure was limited to /usr/local for the most part, but I got peace of mind from checking those other directories too. And now brew works (so far).
Thanks for helping! On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Nicholas Chubrich <[email protected]>wrote: > 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] >>> >> >> >> >
