mailscanner rpm can't uninstall

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Sun Nov 11 16:57:36 GMT 2007


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James D. Parra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to uninstall & reinstall mailscanner-4.65.3-1.noarch.rpm, however
> "rpm -e" says the rpm is not installed, which is incorrect. MailScanner was
> installed from the tarball install.sh script in
> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/MailScanner-4.65.3-1.
> 
> mailserver:/usr/src/packages/BUILD/MailScanner-4.65.3-1 # rpm -e
> mailscanner-4.65.3-1.noarch.rpm 
> error: package mailscanner-4.65.3-1.noarch.rpm is not installed
> 
> mailserver:/usr/src/packages/BUILD/MailScanner-4.65.3-1 # rpm -Uvh
> mailscanner-4.65.3-1.noarch.rpm 
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>         package mailscanner-4.65.3-1 is already installed
> <snip>
> 
> This is a new server with a fresh install of Suse 10.2 and I want to recheck
> a few details in the install output. Perhaps there an uninstall command for
> MailScanner?

You did allready use it. The obvious questions now are:
 - What is the utput of `rpm -qa|grep -i mail`
 - If MS is not listed is there still a residue present? (It should not
             but we are well beyond the point where we take things for
granted.)

Hugo.

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