Re: Uninstall Everything.

Try:
"rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2"

That's without the ".i386.rpm" part which should not be included.

Poul L. Christiansen

PS. I've turned of HTML in Netscape mail 6, but I don't think it's
working. Are you recieving HTML now?

Sterling wrote:

> H-
>
> Thanks too all that have emailed and sent info about moving up too the
> latest postgres. Unfortunately due to a lack of gray matter, or perhaps
> a mild case of brain fart I'm stuck and unable to get this process
> working.
>
> What I'd like to do now is completely uninstall postgres from the system
> and move from there. I'm not concerned with preserving any database
> tables.
>
> I've found many references on how to install rpm's but unfortunately
> none of the rpm -e postgres stuff works on my machine.
>
> Would it be practical to simply remove all the directories associated
> with postgres (which I'm sure is a lot and where to begin finding them??
> 8^) or is there another 'cleaner' process to get it up cleared out of
> the system?
> Check out this contradiction:
>
> [root(at)XXXX postgres]# rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
> error: package postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm is not installed
> [root(at)XXXX postgres]# rpm -ivh postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
> package postgresql-7.0.3-2 is already installed
> [root(at)XXXX postgres]#
>
> Help me Obi-Postgres.
> You're my only hope.
> Thanks.
> -Sterling
>