From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 8:27: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scc.nl (node1374.a2000.nl [62.108.19.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAC5152FF for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:26:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@scc.nl) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA61344 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:58:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by dwarf.hq.scc.nl with netnews for questions@FreeBSD.org (questions@FreeBSD.org) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:58:18 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <3842A29A.3C5E340@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38429C10.89C25112@bigfoot.com> Subject: Re: wordperfect uninstall Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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