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How to remove old pg RPMs?

From
"Patrick Hatcher"
Date:
I'm not very well versed in Linux command line.  How do I remove Pg 7.2.2
that I installed via RH 8 RPMs so that I can install Pg 7.3.2?  I tried
installing using rpm -Uvh, believing I could just update.  However, I got
all sorts of error messages.  I figured I would try uninstalling the old
version first.

TIA
-Patrick

Patrick Hatcher
Macys.Com

Re: How to remove old pg RPMs?

From
"Josh Trutwin"
Date:
> I'm not very well versed in Linux command line.  How do I remove Pg
> 7.2.2 that I installed via RH 8 RPMs so that I can install Pg 7.3.2?  I
> tried installing using rpm -Uvh, believing I could just update.
> However, I got all sorts of error messages.  I figured I would try
> uninstalling the old version first.

try:

rpm -qa | grep -i postgres

This will list all the postgres RPM's installed on your system.

Then to uninstall:

rpm -e whatever.rpm

(replacing whatever.rpm with the files from the previous cmd, you can list
multiple RPM files)

I usually install from source, so I'm not sure if anything on your system
depends on Postgres being installed...

Josh

Re: How to remove old pg RPMs?

From
"Patrick Hatcher"
Date:


Thank you!




    
                    "Josh Trutwin"
    
                    <josh@trutwins.homeip.n       To:     <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
    
                    et>                           cc:
    
                    Sent by:                      Subject:     Re: [NOVICE] How to remove old pg RPMs?
    
                    pgsql-novice-owner@post
    
                    gresql.org
    

    

    
                    02/17/2003 08:50 AM
    

    

    





> I'm not very well versed in Linux command line.  How do I remove Pg
> 7.2.2 that I installed via RH 8 RPMs so that I can install Pg 7.3.2?  I
> tried installing using rpm -Uvh, believing I could just update.
> However, I got all sorts of error messages.  I figured I would try
> uninstalling the old version first.

try:

rpm -qa | grep -i postgres

This will list all the postgres RPM's installed on your system.

Then to uninstall:

rpm -e whatever.rpm

(replacing whatever.rpm with the files from the previous cmd, you can list
multiple RPM files)

I usually install from source, so I'm not sure if anything on your system
depends on Postgres being installed...

Josh



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