RPM - Won't Install, Won't Uninstall
 

Hi,

I'm trying to downgrade my installation of gcc since vmware 5.0 won't compile vmmon on my current version of gcc (4.0.1) which I recently installed (and which I now can't uninstall either because of dependencies that I'm surprised even exist, as I've installed nothing else since...)

I've downloaded gcc-3.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm but when I try to install with urpmi I get this:

[root@localhost jazzman]# urpmi gcc-3.4.1-4mdk
Everything already installed

And when I try to uninstall, I get this:

[root@localhost jazzman]# urpme gcc-3.4.1-4mdk
unknown package: gcc-3.4.1-4mdk


RPMdrake is no better, and a grep of my rpm list gives this:

[root@localhost jazzman]# rpm -qa | grep gcc
gcc-cpp-4.0.1-5mdk
libgcc1-3.4.1-4mdk

Any ideas as to why this might happen?

Thanks in advance,
Neil

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Version 4.01 of the gcc package is already installed so that's why it comes back with this. gcc-3.4 (from 2005LE) and gcc-4.0 (from 2006) are the same package - gcc, they are just different versions of it. You can't have 2 versions of the one package installed at the same time like this so if one's already installed it will tell you that.

Fine, since gcc-3.4.1 was never installed in the first place.

You're going about it the wrong way :) There are a couple of compatability packages you can try in 2006 to get an old gcc. You can try installing either gcc2.96 or gcc3.3 to get the older gcc in a way that doesn't interfere with your existing gcc version 4 package. Goto http://easyurpmi.zarb.org if your urpmi can't find these - they are in the main and contrib repos respectively.

I'd say try the gcc3.3 first.