I was installing Opera onto my system. I thought that the install did not go
correctly, so I just deleted some of the directories so that I could try
again. When I tried to install it again, Linux kept telling me that the
Opera package still existed. I did a search through my entire machine for
any file that had "Opera" in it and deleted it. Linux is still telling me
that the package is still installed. Is there some kind of registry or
something that would list the file name? What other things can I do to get
rid of this file in my system?

Thanks!

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 06:18:27 GMT, dsterling1 wrote:
> I was installing Opera onto my system. I thought that the install did not go


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dsterling1 wrote:
> Linux is still telling me that the package is still installed. Is
> there some kind of registry or something that would list the file
> name?

If you installed the program using rpm or some other package management
system, you must remove the program with the same package management
tool.

--
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka@iki.fi

Markku Kolkka <markku.kolkka@iki.fi> writes:

> dsterling1 wrote:
> > Linux is still telling me that the package is still installed. Is
> > there some kind of registry or something that would list the file
> > name?
>
> If you installed the program using rpm or some other package management
> system, you must remove the program with the same package management
> tool.

Which is to say, if you used an rpm-package to install the thing, as

rpm -ivh opera-WHATEVER.rpm

You need to remove by

rpm -e opera (or possibly rpm -e opera-WHATEVER)

You need to be root to do this.

I think RedHat has some graphical tool for this - but I'm not sure as I never use it for rpm's.

/M.

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 05:44:54 +0000, Martin wrote:

> Markku Kolkka <markku.kolkka@iki.fi> writes:
>
>> dsterling1 wrote:
>> > Linux is still telling me that the package is still installed. Is
>> > there some kind of registry or something that would list the file
>> > name?
>>
>> If you installed the program using rpm or some other package management
>> system, you must remove the program with the same package management
>> tool.
>
> Which is to say, if you used an rpm-package to install the thing, as
>
> rpm -ivh opera-WHATEVER.rpm
>
> You need to remove by
>
> rpm -e opera (or possibly rpm -e opera-WHATEVER)
>
> You need to be root to do this.
>
> I think RedHat has some graphical tool for this - but I'm not sure as I never use it for rpm's.
>
> /M.

if you installed using the source, get the source again and usually you
can do 'make uninstall' after re-doing './configure' . if you still have
the source, just go to it and type 'make uninstall'.