[H-GEN] remove software not installed via rpm?

[David O'Brien]

Hi group

I appear to have vmware installed on my Mandrake 10 box, although it's not 
configured (executing "vmware" tells me to run the config script), but when I 
do that it complains about various things. That's not really an issue (so 
far) because I want to remove this version (4.0) completely and install a 
later version.

If I do "which vmware" I get /usr/bin/vmware (executable, not a symlink) but 
when I try to search for an rpm of vmware I can't find anything. So, finally 
to the question  :-)  How do I get rid of all/any existing vmware files in 
preparation for installing a later version, for which I have an rpm?


thanks a lot
David

Session details for info:

[david at rocket david]$ which vmware
/usr/bin/vmware
[david at rocket david]$ rpm -qa | grep vmware
[david at rocket david]$ rpm -qa | grep are
[david at rocket david]$ ll -a /usr/bin/vmware
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 4350 ene 29 23:52 /usr/bin/vmware*

[root at rocket /]# rpm -qa | grep mware
[root at rocket /]#

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