Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 uninstall Question

[Clyde McQueen <mcqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I installed 2 pkg files I had to use the rpm -e command to uninstall... I
> discovered I did not need them... I was running out of space in os
> partition...How do I edit them out of the installed software screen in ith
> Qube 2's GUI ?

Warning! I'm not an expert, but I had a similar problem, and after poking
around awhile here's what I found out:

The file /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/install/index.html contains the install
GUI web page. In my case this file was somehow truncated by a bad install.
It's re-built by the cgi script
/usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/install/install.cgi, although I'm not exactly
sure when. I forced a rebuild by executing the cgi script from the command
line, and all was well again.

By poking around a little more, I found that the cgi script invokes the
shell script /usr/local/sbin/list_upgrades, which builds the list by looking
for files of the form "/var/lib/cobalt/*.md51st".

Given all that, one might presume that a way to munge the GUI would be to
delete the appropriate *.md51st file, then rebuild the html page by running
the cgi script. I'm not entirely sure how the *.md51st files fit into the
overall rpm picture, so I can't say whether that's a good idea or not.

Good luck.