more info Re: failed install of KDE 3

[J. Eric Gilliland]

oh, yeah, duh...

Thanks for the info.

Eric
--- Gene Dascher <gedascher at multiservice.com> wrote:
> Run this same command as root.  You don't have permission
> to add/delete from
> the RPM database as a regular user.
> 
> Gene
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> > [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of
> J. Eric Gilliland
> > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:57 PM
> > To: Jonathan Hutchins
> > Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> > Subject: more info Re: failed install of KDE 3
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> >
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