On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 17:40 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote:
On Saturday 18 June 2005 08:02, Anders Johansson wrote:
Thanks for the response. If suggesting "rpm -e dosemu" was a trick to get get me to re-read the man file for rpm, it worked, but there is no option -e to be found. there is -el if I wish to erase something, but no -e alone. I used rpm -il because that is what the man page said, but that did not work.
Carlos just dropped me a note saying that rpm can only be used by root, although I do not understand why I didn't get a "command not found", possibly due to the display options in rpm.
re: dosemu being in suse 9.3, I searched for 'dosemu dose dos' and dosemu did not come up during the install process, as I select files to get things like LOCATE! When I just used yast, it came up, but it had a lock in the first column. I clicked accept, it said Install more/finish I clicked on finish. at the botton corner I clicked (finish/accept?). Yast terminated and went back to the yast menu. I tried this several times, including clicking on install more and changing the padlock to a check mark, no change.
As it appears that I might have to download and undo the .tgz files, could you please tell me the commands (as usaer, not root).
tia, john
Try using (as root) pin dosemu (you may have to have the DVD/CD1 in the
drive to copy a file to the hard drive) to see if the program is on your
media and whether or not it is installed. Also rpm -e <package name>
will work but must be run as root. And you need to supply the correct
name of the package as it was installed.
rpm -qa|grep -i