Re: Uninstalling RPMs

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Kevin Bramblett wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade from Samba 2.2.1a which ships with rhi 7.2 to Samba
> 2.2.3a.  However, I get errors saying files already exist when I try to
> upgrade.  Does one have to uninstall the previous version, and if so, what
> order must the parts be removed, and what is the rpm commands for that?
> There is a Samba-common and a Samba-client, and there might be one more, I'm
> not sure.

Try "rpm -Fvh new-samba-rpm" first.  That does a "freshen" (update
stuff that's installed ONLY).  If that doesn't work, try
"rpm -Fvh --nodeps --force new-samba-rpm", which does the same
thing, but doesn't check dependencies and forces overwrites of
stuff.
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