On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 15:59, Alfredo Cole wrote:
Hi:
I am running SuSE 8.2 Pro, and installed Ximian 2 using instructions posted on Novel's site.
The install went fine, and Ximian runs fine also. The problem is that installing any new software using Yast results in numerous dependency problems, to the point that I can not install nor update any packages now. Is there a way to uninstall Ximian and get my system the way it was before?
Hehe, yes but it's a bit work. You'll have to either forceupgrade a number of libs (ca 20 - 30 rpms ) backu to the latest original suselibs. This will take you about 1 hour on a broadbanc connection. Basicly: rpm -qa |grep ximian Now you know which packages you need to downgrade. Then rpm -qa |grep ximian |perl -ni -e '$n = m/(\w+)-(\d+)/; print $1. "\n" ;' to get a list of the packages w/o the versionumbers. I'm not sure, but maybe you can use apt-get with the -d (only downlod) switch to get the packages, if not, you'll have to ftp to a suse mirror ang download them from there (remember to get the secure versions!). Also remember not only the --force switch to rpm but also the --oldpackage for downgrading packages. Very usefull IMHO. Cheers, Tarjei
Thank you.
-- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC www.acyc.com - www.clshonduras.com