On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > ...I can't seem to figure out how to properly > remove an RPM. LOL. I thought it was rpm -e, Correct. > but that always tells me that the package isn't > installed even when it is. Many packages are separated into client server sections, so that you might have, for instance: openssh-3.5p1-6 openssh-server-3.5p1-6 openssh-clients-3.5p1-6 openssh-askpass-3.5p1-6 openssh-askpass-gnome-3.5p1-6 One way to find the name of a package is to feed rpm the pathname of it's binary program, with "-f", (server or client application), such as: rpm -qf /usr/bin/ssh openssh-clients-3.5p1-6 rpm -qf /usr/sbin/sshd openssh-server-3.5p1-6 Then you remove that package (optionally leaving off the version info): rpm -e openssh-clients --test (--test only simulates, as you guessed). produces: error: Failed dependencies: openssh-clients is needed by (installed) kdebase-3.1-13 Then you need to decide whether you really need.... For sendmail: rpm -e sendmail --test error: Failed dependencies: smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) fetchmail-6.2.0-3 smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) mutt-1.4.1-1 But you know that postfix will fix that, so you add --nodeps (otherwise risky): rpm -e sendmail --test --nodeps (no complaint this time) > I think that is where I will need the help at > the moment to remove the sendmail packages. No problem there: rpm -qf /usr/sbin/sendmail sendmail-8.12.8-5.90 But maybe you succeeded before and didn't know it. To find out, do: rpm -q sendmail postfix sendmail-8.12.8-5.90 package postfix is not installed (but you may see the reverse, if you have been successful). Best wishes, LCR BTW, you guys have convinced me to try postfix, as you might have guessed from the fact that I have been looking over the install scripts (the ones for postfix are unusually complicated). -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list