removing programs?

[Colonel Sanders]

I have an old version of GAIM on Mandrake 9.1, it's version 0.59 and 0.73 is out... I want to be able to interface with MSN.

So I downloaded the RPM and everything appeared to be fine- I go to start GAIM- still the old version. I get in the console, which gaim- gives me one gaim, and it is the old versin(in /usr/bin). What should I do to upgrade this software? How do I remove the old gaim?

Where should I look when an install goes wrong?

TIA, L J

[Colonel Sanders]

Finally found out how to remove programs, but I apparently made a mistake- I had attempted to install the newev\r version of GAIM, and it partially succeded. It was succesfull enough to where I cant run the RPM again, but it was not successfull enough to allow me to run GAIm, nor can I find it (anywhere...) to remove it and try to install it again.

Any suggestions?

L J

[jglen490]

It sounds like the software was successfully (?) removed, but the RPM database was not properly updated. What you can do is (as root, always, in a terminal or in Konsole) run:

rpm --rebuilddb

It will run for awhile, but the end result will be a corrected database that matches what you actually have on your system. At that point you should be able to re-install the GAIM 0.73 package.

[Colonel Sanders]

no luck, tried downloading the newest .74, same result- first time I ran it RPMdrake said already installed...

There is a message that says the package has a bad signature, could this be the cause of the problems?

L J

[Colonel Sanders]

I have finally given up on the RPM and simply used the source instead- it worked first time. I just need to work on a plugin some tomorrow to get access to MSN via Linux.

What good is Windows?

L J