On 31 Oct 2001, at 14:16, Marcos Vinicius Dufloth wrote:

> Hi. I began an rpm Firebird installation, but forgot to create the
> user interbase. Well, then I get an error from mkpasswd. Ok, but now,
> when I try to run rpm again, I get the error "package FirebirdSS...
> already installed". I tryed remove /opt/interbase and restart my Linux
> but this continue. If I use rpm -e Fire... I get that "the package
> isn't installed". What I must remove?

It seems that your RPM is slightly confused, have you tried the --
replacepkg option? See the RPM man page for details....

Paul

Paul Schmidt
Tricat Technologies
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