Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:58:18 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: wordperfect uninstall Message-ID: <3842A29A.3C5E340@scc.nl> References: <38429C10.89C25112@bigfoot.com>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Well, there is no package called wordperfect. In fact, all i can find > is RPM. However, there is an RPM directory in my distfiles directory > that is *full* of rpms. I want to remove every vestige of > wordperfect, but i don't want to leave any renegade rpms. Obviously > i can delete the files in the dist dir, but they still might have been > installed somewhere. I ran RPM -qa to query all packages, and it > tells me: > > failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm /usr/ports/distfile/rpm is used by the linux_base-5.2 and linux_devel-5.2 ports. These ports make sure the RPM database is under /compat/linux so that the Linux native rpm can use it too. So, to query that database specify... --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm ...on the commandline. Alternatively run /compat/linux/rpm. > Also, there is a WP directory in my home dir that i can delete, but > obviously this is a last resort. I would like to do this the 'right' > way. Frankly, i've *had* it with RPMs... i never appreciated pkg_info > as much as i do now.... Relax. rpm is different and has it's own quirks, but it's not that bad. Not that it's that good either... :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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