Thread: Uninstall Everything.

Uninstall Everything.

From
Sterling
Date:
H-

Thanks too all that have emailed and sent info about moving up too the
latest postgres. Unfortunately due to a lack of gray matter, or perhaps
a mild case of brain fart I'm stuck and unable to get this process
working.

What I'd like to do now is completely uninstall postgres from the system
and move from there. I'm not concerned with preserving any database
tables.

I've found many references on how to install rpm's but unfortunately
none of the rpm -e postgres stuff works on my machine.

Would it be practical to simply remove all the directories associated
with postgres (which I'm sure is a lot and where to begin finding them??
8^)  or is there another 'cleaner' process to get it up cleared out of
the system?
Check out this contradiction:

[root@XXXX postgres]# rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
error: package postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm is not installed
[root@XXXX postgres]# rpm -ivh postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
package postgresql-7.0.3-2 is already installed
[root@XXXX postgres]#

Help me Obi-Postgres.
You're my only hope.
Thanks.
-Sterling



Re: Uninstall Everything.

From
"Poul L. Christiansen"
Date:
Try:
"rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2"

That's without the ".i386.rpm" part which should not be included.

Poul L. Christiansen

PS. I've turned of HTML in Netscape mail 6, but I don't think it's
working. Are you recieving HTML now?

Sterling wrote:

> H-
>
> Thanks too all that have emailed and sent info about moving up too the
> latest postgres. Unfortunately due to a lack of gray matter, or perhaps
> a mild case of brain fart I'm stuck and unable to get this process
> working.
>
> What I'd like to do now is completely uninstall postgres from the system
> and move from there. I'm not concerned with preserving any database
> tables.
>
> I've found many references on how to install rpm's but unfortunately
> none of the rpm -e postgres stuff works on my machine.
>
> Would it be practical to simply remove all the directories associated
> with postgres (which I'm sure is a lot and where to begin finding them??
> 8^)  or is there another 'cleaner' process to get it up cleared out of
> the system?
> Check out this contradiction:
>
> [root@XXXX postgres]# rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
> error: package postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm is not installed
> [root@XXXX postgres]# rpm -ivh postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
> package postgresql-7.0.3-2 is already installed
> [root@XXXX postgres]#
>
> Help me Obi-Postgres.
> You're my only hope.
> Thanks.
> -Sterling
>


Re: Uninstall Everything.

From
Sterling
Date:
H-

Thanks for the info.

I was able to unistall all the files. I did have to manually delete the
directories that have the database data in them though.

Your email did not contain any HTML and I'm not sending html messages. I also
had Netscape 6 and promptly uninstalled it the same night. But that's just me.

Thanks again and take it easy.
-Sterling


"Poul L. Christiansen" wrote:

> Try:
> "rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2"
>
> That's without the ".i386.rpm" part which should not be included.
>
> Poul L. Christiansen
>
> PS. I've turned of HTML in Netscape mail 6, but I don't think it's
> working. Are you recieving HTML now?
>
> Sterling wrote:
>
> > H-
> >
> > Thanks too all that have emailed and sent info about moving up too the
> > latest postgres. Unfortunately due to a lack of gray matter, or perhaps
> > a mild case of brain fart I'm stuck and unable to get this process
> > working.
> >
> > What I'd like to do now is completely uninstall postgres from the system
> > and move from there. I'm not concerned with preserving any database
> > tables.
> >
> > I've found many references on how to install rpm's but unfortunately
> > none of the rpm -e postgres stuff works on my machine.
> >
> > Would it be practical to simply remove all the directories associated
> > with postgres (which I'm sure is a lot and where to begin finding them??
> > 8^)  or is there another 'cleaner' process to get it up cleared out of
> > the system?
> > Check out this contradiction:
> >
> > [root@XXXX postgres]# rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
> > error: package postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm is not installed
> > [root@XXXX postgres]# rpm -ivh postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
> > package postgresql-7.0.3-2 is already installed
> > [root@XXXX postgres]#
> >
> > Help me Obi-Postgres.
> > You're my only hope.
> > Thanks.
> > -Sterling
> >


Re: Uninstall Everything.

From
"Joel Burton"
Date:
> Try:
> "rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2"

or just 'rpm -e postgresql'. You don't to specific the version
numbers, even.

However, you'll need to uninstall *all* the PG stuff you have, like
postgresql-server, postgresql-test, etc. I usually use

rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep postgresql`

which means rpm -qa (show all rpm packages), grep postgresql (find
those that have postgresql in their names), and remove them all.
--
Joel Burton, Director of Information Systems -*- jburton@scw.org
Support Center of Washington (www.scw.org)