more info Re: failed install of KDE 3

[J. Eric Gilliland]

Dear Jonathan,

I tried what you said.  The command
rpm -e kdegames3-3.0.1-1mdk

Got me the following error.

error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not
permitted (1)
error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

Any ideas?

TIA,

Eric Gilliland

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com> wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Eric Gilliland" <patzeric at yahoo.com>
> 
> > Some time ago I had a failed attempt to install KDE 3.
> >Is there any way to uninstall the failed KDE 3 install.
> 
> I presume that you installed in from RPMs on a Mandrake
> box, since you
> mention Mandrake 9 later in your message.  You're going
> to have to identify
> all of the KDE RPMs.  There should be a pattern, like
> kde-3*, so you can
> just
> 
> rpm -qa | grep kde-3
> 
> to get a list, then
> 
> rpm -e <list>
> 
> You may want to re-install KDE 2 from the original media
> or whatever update
> source you use.
> 

=====
J. Eric Gilliland
patzeric at yahoo.com
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