Okay, I'm usually using Slackware, I don't like Red Hat because it sorta like windows. And now I hate it because everything is supposed to go smooth here, but it's not. Slackware kicks ass :P

Anyway, I've set up a Red Hat printerserver and can't get anything to work (took me 5min in Slackware), so I thought that SAMBA might have something to do with it. Anyway, without thinking I downloaded the latest RPM package (3.0.8) and installed it. Now I can't remove anything. I try with: rpm -e samba-3.0.8-1_rh9.i386.rpm but it says that the package isn't installed.

Okey, I suppose I didn't get that package installed. So I try to uninstall the samba that comes with this Red Hat 9 system. So I ran: rpm -e samba-2.2.7a-7.9.0.i386.rpm then it says that the package isn't installed either! But I have a running smbd, and when I type (after running updatedb) locate samba I get a whole list of samba files. So it's spread out on the whole system like f00king virus or something, and I can't get it uninstalled! (Sorry for bad language, I'm sorta pissed off.)

So my question is, how do I REMOVE everything that's samba related? Configuration files, daemons, anything that might be in the RPM database etc. I gotta get this shit going on friday, so I need all the help I can get.

Any help is apreciated as long as I don't get rm -rf ./

Thanks in advance.

// ni0wn

just try "rpm -i <NEWRPM>" and see if it can upgrade for you.

It is always best to figure out what is installed prior to putting anything else on the system. I would (as root) run rpm -qa | sort >allrpms. The rpm -qa will query the rpm database the a will allow all names (even duplicates) to be included. The | sort will keep everything together. The > allrpms will take the sorted output result set and put the result in a file called allrpms. Use an editor to examine allrpms and use an rpm -e to erase anything you no longer want.

I think rpm -e wants the name rpm sees it as, not the filename as well.