Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!

2004-01-31 Thread Margot
JoeHill wrote:
Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I install
MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to which
I get 'command not found'.
Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]# urpme mldonkey
unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
WTF?

When I've used urpme it has always given me a reason if it was unable to 
remove something. This message looks incomplete - did you get back to 
the prompt?

I see you were su rather than root when you tried it - maybe you need to 
be logged in as root (su - rather than just su). Or you could try to 
remove it via rpmdrake in mcc.

Margot

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Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:54:57 +
Margot disseminated the following:

  Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I
  install
  MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to
  which
  I get 'command not found'.
  
  Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get:
  
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]# urpme mldonkey
  unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
  
  WTF?
  
 
 When I've used urpme it has always given me a reason if it was unable to 
 remove something. This message looks incomplete - did you get back to 
 the prompt?

Yep, it comes back to a root prompt. No details.
 
 I see you were su rather than root when you tried it - maybe you need to 
 be logged in as root (su - rather than just su). Or you could try to 
 remove it via rpmdrake in mcc.

Same thing, except weirder. I run 'drakconf' from a term while in a VNC session
(wait 3 minutes for MCC to start cuz it's a P166), seemingly remove mldonkey
successfully (no errors from MCC), but when I close MCC, the term shows the
same output as before:

unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf

and when I do a 'rpm -q mldonkey', sure enough, it's still there.

I've tried removing and reinstalling other packages, and it appears to be only
this mldonkey package that is misbehaving so.

This is the first time I've ever encountered this in over 3 years of using
Mandrake :-\

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Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!

2004-01-31 Thread Margot
JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:54:57 +
Margot disseminated the following:

Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I
install
MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to
which
I get 'command not found'.
Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]# urpme mldonkey
unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
WTF?

When I've used urpme it has always given me a reason if it was unable to 
remove something. This message looks incomplete - did you get back to 
the prompt?


Yep, it comes back to a root prompt. No details.
 

I see you were su rather than root when you tried it - maybe you need to 
be logged in as root (su - rather than just su). Or you could try to 
remove it via rpmdrake in mcc.


Same thing, except weirder. I run 'drakconf' from a term while in a VNC session
(wait 3 minutes for MCC to start cuz it's a P166), seemingly remove mldonkey
successfully (no errors from MCC), but when I close MCC, the term shows the
same output as before:
unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf

and when I do a 'rpm -q mldonkey', sure enough, it's still there.

I've tried removing and reinstalling other packages, and it appears to be only
this mldonkey package that is misbehaving so.
This is the first time I've ever encountered this in over 3 years of using
Mandrake :-\
How very odd! I'm not familiar with mldonkey, I have no idea what it 
does, but could it be that it is still running, or possibly being used 
by something else, while you are trying to remove it? That's the only 
reason I can think of as to why you might have difficulty removing it - 
after that, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas!

Margot

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Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:57:12 +
Margot disseminated the following:

  This is the first time I've ever encountered this in over 3 years of using
  Mandrake :-\
  
 
 How very odd! I'm not familiar with mldonkey, I have no idea what it 
 does, but could it be that it is still running, or possibly being used 
 by something else, while you are trying to remove it? 

No it's definitely not running...if it would run, I wouldn't want to remove it,
eh? :-)

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