I had installed Ymessenger 1.0.4 for redhat 9.0 but it was not working properly so i decided
to reinstall it. The command ymessenger.uninstall giving the error "command not found"
so i deleted all the ymessenger files and also deleted .ymessenger from /home/usr
and then tried to install it again but kept getting the error "package ymessenger-1.0.4-1 is already installed". I have tried everyting to ensure that no files of ymessenger are left but to no avail.......
Could you help me please?
If you can I'd be eternally grateful and even if you can't thanks for reading through this anyway.

Waiting for a solution..........

Hi vivek_arya!!!

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org. We will need much more info from you for us to be able to help you.

1 - Which distro are you using?
2 - What sort of installation have you done? (source, rpms...)
3 - Full name of the package you are trying to install and how you are trying to install...

Oops, my mistake... you are using Redhat 9.0

Try going into "Add/Remove Applications" and from there, remove your ymessenger. Then try to reinstall.

To remove a package (rpms) use

rpm -e <name of the package.rpm>

You can alternatively try to upgrade it, ratter then reinstalling it with

rpm -Uvh <name of the package.rpm>

Again, you could give more details, because the command you are trying to issue (.uninstall) is wrong and also is used for some source applications ratter then rpms. The syntax usually is:

./uninstall

Good luck!

Thanks for replying but the problem was not solved.
I am trying to install from a rpm package which i downloaded from messenger.yahoo.com
I installed and ran it and it was getting configured properly but once i would login it would
get stuck(i couldnt even close it then). So as i said i deleted all the files (even the initial rpm
file). Then i downladed the rpm file again and tried to install it but it kept giving the error
"package ymessenger-1.0.4-1 is already installed" .
Now i have tried what you said but
1) In the Add/ Remove applications i cant find any yahoo messenger
2) When i try to upgrade using the command you mentioned it starts "preparing" and then gives the same previous error
3) When i try to use rpm -e rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
i get an error saying " package rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm is not installed"
could you help me once more?
And Thanks for the interest you have shown.....

try rpm --rebuilddb

And the command ymessenger does not work now:
"Command not found"

Can Someone Please Help Me Out?
PLEASE!

Try first getting a descent package manager for Redhat, called synaptic:

http://apt.freshrpms.net/

Get the package which fits you the best, in your case, Redhat 9.0. Install it with:

rpm -ivh <name of the package.rpm>

as root. If everything installed fine (and 99% of the times, it does) issue another command, as root:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install synaptic.

Now let me explain what apt-get and synaptic are. Apt-get is a great idea of installing programs and handle dependencies created first for Debian. Let's say you would like to install mplayer. You would need to install all packages individually, including gui, codecs, fonts... with apt-get, you simply type:

apt-get install mplayer

and bingo. apt-get connects to servers, download and install all packages for you. You can specify even unofficial servers editing the file located at /etc/apt.
Synaptic is the same as apt-get, but you do the job "graphically".

So, the first thing you will do after getting synaptic is to type synaptic at the terminal and locate your ymessenger packages and remove them. If synaptic does not find them, try at the console:

locate ymessenger
whereis ymessenger

to find where those packages remains. Few tips:

- never remove a rpm simply by deleting it You can do it at windows, but it's dangerous to delete files like this in Linux. You've to remove them before installing newer ones or upgrading them (rpm -Uvh .....)

- you did not need to bump with another message (Can someone please help me out?...). Because if somebody knows how to solve, they will... If you don't get an answer for days it's ok to bump, but from your previous to the actual message was only 30 - 40 minutes...

- if it still fails to remove, install, try typing apt-get install ymessenger and see if this package is available at apt-get repositories. If not, get a source version and compile it yourself. It's pretty simple, just follow this thread (and always, always read the README file with the package/source you've downloaded)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094

Regards

Oops. I dunno what ymessenger is either . But if you need an instant messenger I'd also recommend some others as gaim:

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

it runs jabber, ICQ, MSN, AIM, IRC and many others at the same program. Or if you need only ICQ, try licq:

http://www.licq.org/

There's also kopete, I've tried and it's good. It's also a multi-messenger as gaim:

http://kopete.kde.org/

Remember, you could:

1 - download and install rpms
2 - compile from source
3 - type apt-get install gaim, or apt-get install licq, apt-get install kopete

I recommend the number 3

Hi Vivek,

Dont try to uninstall any application directly. To remove an RPM package use
rpm -e <file-name>.
In your case to install yahoo messenger follow following steps.

1) download rpm package from yahoo
2) use command rpm -ivh <file-name> --force

p.s : note I am using --force command. this is not good idea to use 'force'. but in your case it will work.

if you want to delete yahoo messenger use
rpm -e <filename> only

I am using yahoo messenger on my RedHat 9 for some timenow . It works fine.
With regards
Mahesh

first find out what package ymessenger is even installed as. try this command
rpm -qf `which ymessenger`

if your useing the newest versions it should say
ymessenger-1.0.4-1

and when your trying to erase it you only need to type
rpm -e ymessenger-1.0.4-1

You are confuseing rpm when you originally typed
rpm -e ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm

rpm is weird like that.

During your first run of ymessenger it will ask you if you want to add an entry into your .xinitrc file so that ymessenger can start up when you first start Xwindow. Don't click hat box. ymessenger has a crazy bug that causes it to insert a blank file in your home directory called ".xinitrc". This will cause your Xserver to crash when you start Xwindow. If this happens just remove the file from your home directory.

type in
rm .xinitrc

ymessenger is the source for a lot of problems for me. I have noticed that it's fonts
get screwed up the next time you use it so I end up deleting my .ymessenger home directory every time I want to use it. ymessenger sucks in general for linux users.