[H-GEN] SMALL RPM PROBLEM

[Rick Phillips]

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This is something akin to the discussion yesterday regarding tar ball
installation - where does it go?

I don't normally use Red Hat but installed ver 8.0 for a friend last night.
He has a Conexant HCF modem which, as usual, is not recognised during the
initial install.  I have routinely installed many of these modems under
Mandrake using drivers from the web.

Because of my lack of familiarity with Red Hat, I accidentally downloaded
and installed the wrong kernel/architecture mix RPM.  The installation
seemed to go fine but the usual symlink was not available and the total
distro started to run "doggy/slow".  I tried uninstalling the RPM and was
greeted with words to the effect that the RPM was not installed.

"Ah, good, I say".  I then download the correct RPM and on attempting to
install the correct RPM, I get a few words that tell me that a newer version
of the RPM is already installed and it won't proceed.  I then get on a
treadmill where I can't uninstall because it is "not installed" and I can't
upgrade/relocate/force the correct version.

I gave up at 1am this morning and therefore don't have access to the machine
right now.  I want to go back to finish the job but would rather go armed.
Can I manually edit the RPM database to remove reference to the HCF RPM that
is supposed to be installed/not installed?  Is it that easy or do I format
/dev/hde and start again?

Should I just install the tar ball version and to hell with the RPM?

Regards,

Rick



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