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[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 22:59:44 on Tuesday Tuesday 24 February 2009, Randall R Schulz 
<rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday February 24 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > Also, if you install RPMs manually, they show up in YaST, but
> > > naturally have no associated repository. You said you'd attempted
> > > unsuccessfully to install an Adobe-supplied Flash version 10. Was
> > > that an RPM?
> >
> > Aha! I begin to understand. The file came from the Adobe site, not
> > from any of the repositories. Yes, it was an RPM.
> >
> > I think I have to return to the Adobe site, and try to reinstall the
> > file, this time according to the instructions.
>
> As they say, "when all else fails, read the instructions."

The problem was in not connecting all the synapses between things that I 
knew, not (in this case) in lacking information that I would have got had 
I read more. That's the meaning of the "Aha".

In the hope that all will now go smoothly (those are Famous Last Words), I 
can thank all who pitched in. My thanks to the group.

> Remember the beauty of RPMs is that when you remove them, things are
> generally as if they'd never been installed in the first place. That's
> not literally true in all cases. E.g., sometimes configuration files
> (especially if they were locally customized while the package was
> installed) will be left behind.
>
> And if dependent packages were installed as an implicit part of
> installing an explicitly requested package (YaST does this for you, and
> we love it for that feature), then removal will leave those other
> packages installed.
>
> But for the most part, if you remove an RPM, most traces of its ever
> having been installed (aside from log file entries, perhaps) will be
> erased and you can begin again as if from scratch.
>
> > --
> > Stan Goodman
>
> RRS



-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
before she became a kept woman
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