At 22:59:44 on Tuesday Tuesday 24 February 2009, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
On Tuesday February 24 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
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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
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