On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:53:53PM +0200, Vinay Ramnath wrote: > Ok, I'll remove my current installation of teTeX and install the one > supplied with SuSE. I thought I'd better get the latest one, but if it > doesn't work like that, I'll remove that. Is it safe to just remove > /usr/local/teTeX/ with everything in it?
I don't know. I've never installed teTeX in any other way then as .rpm. I think you would have to remove a few binaries from /usr/local/bin, too... > >>formats. Also, I can't remove it, using rpm -e lyx*. > > > >What does 'rpm -qa | grep lyx' say? 'rpm -e lyx-exact-name' should work. > > > rpm -qa | grep lyx says nothing. So it's not installed anymore according to rpm's thinking. So this is either true, or the rpm database is broken. > Also, rpm -e replies with package lyx not installed. I tried it before > and I got some errors, but I forgot to write them down and forgot them, > sorry, stupid indeed. However, it seems removed. At least, when I run lyx > from command line, it replies with > command not found. Ok. > So, if you think it is a good idea, I'll first remove /usr/local/teTeX/ > and its contents. Try to figure out what else goth installed by tetex's install.sh and remove this as well. > Then I'll install an other teTeX package with YaST2 and > then install the rpm of LyX 1.2.1, using rpm -Uvh --nodeps > lyx-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm as described in the installation manual of LyX > 1.2.0. Exactly. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
