[H-GEN] SMALL RPM PROBLEM

[Robert Kearey]

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Rick Phillips wrote:

> 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.

I've installed those drivers myself with no worries. Crap modems though, 
barely worth the effort.

> 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.

Please explain - what architecture? What did you install?

"Words to the effect" doesn't mean much - what you probably did was 
something like this:

rpm -Uvh foo.i386.rpm

[oops, I want to uninstall]

rpm -e foo.i386.rpm
error: package foo.i386.rpm is not installed

rpm -e foo is what you want.

> "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.

See above. Read the fine manual :)

> Rick

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