On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:21:51PM +1100, Nik Trevallyn-Jones wrote: > I need to post a couple of corrections to my previous post. Apologies > for the disinformation. > > Nik wrote: > > To re-install XFree only, a command something like the following should > > work for you: rpm -Uvh `rpm -q -a | grep XFree` > > Wrong, wrong, wrong. > > Much simpler: rpm -Uvh <path-to-rpm-files>/XFree*.rpm > > (I should have mentioned that because this is system software, you will > need to be 'root' to do this.) You need to be root anyway, to rpm; the databases are not user-accessible in a standard install. > > You will almost certainly have to add the '--force' option to the UVh > > part: rpm -Uvh --force `rpm -q -a | grep Xfree` > > This still holds true. Nope. --nodeps. --force does *not* imply --nodeps, and that's the one that will often kill you. > Out of interest, my mistake was caused by my confusing issues with > erasing a set of rpms with installing them. If you want (or find you > need) to remove the XFree rpms before you install the RedHat ones, a > command something like: > > rpm -e `rpm -q -a | grep XFree` should do the trick. *This* will *definitely* require nodeps, since you'll find a metric shitload of stuff that depends on X being installed. None of that stuff really *should*, but it does. > rpm -q -a | rpm -e > > I cannot now remember whether I needed to use the '--pipe' option on the > first component to make that work. Oh, my, would that be bad. :-) rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep XFree` I wrap the internal command up as 'rpgrep', and that reduces to rpm -r `rpgrep XFree` I have *lots* of -grep command scripts. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
