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Old 12-16-2004, 12:19 AM   #1
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XFree86 upgrade went bad. What do i do?


I was in the end of XFree86 upgrade with apt and here was a power failure (sometimes it happens here). Now apt saying i have two versions of XFree installed and i can't uninstall one of them or to install it once again. What should i do?
 
Old 12-16-2004, 02:56 PM   #2
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"I was in the end of XFree86 upgrade with apt and here was a power failure (sometimes it happens here). Now apt saying i have two versions of XFree installed and i can't uninstall one of them or to install it once again. What should i do?"

Whenever the automated installer won't do what you want you should drop down to the command line and straighten things out there. Yoper uses rpm so you should go to the root command line and use rpm to remove XFree86 and then install the new version. See man rpm.

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Old 12-16-2004, 03:12 PM   #3
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Yes, i did it after posting. Wanted to remove this post... nevermind.
 
  


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