Re: Question about uninstalling rpms

[Eli Carter <eli carter inet com>]

Donna Appleget wrote:
> So, I am running Linux 9 on a Dell Poweredge.  I decided to get away from
> Windows 2003 and just run a standalone server for web services and FPSE
> support.
>
> I have learned that it is much better to use rpms from the redhat site
> rather than going to the producer and installing them using make.
>
> Before I knew this, I went to openssh.org and "upgraded" my openssh
> software.  I am not sure when it stopped working but it started giving me
> and error when I would try to start sshd:
> sshd failed.  The error was starting sshd:  /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 20;
> garbage at the end of the line.
>
> I looked at that file and couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.
>
> So, then I decided to just get rid of it and reinstall.  I tried to do the
> rpm -e command but it couldn't uninstall due to dependencies.  I tried to
> do rpm -i and it said it was already installed.

Perhaps what you want to do is 'rpm --upgrade' ?  ('rpm -U' for short)

Eli
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