RE: [cobalt-users] Uninstall package doesn't work

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I cannot uninstall the POP Before SMTP Relaying 1.0.7 package on my
> server. I am logged in as root and I run the uninstall script.
> It takes maybe 10 seconds (no message is coming, is that correct ??)
> and after I see that the package is still there. No way to install this
> package new, because the server sais that this package already exists.
> Do I have to restart the whole server ??
>
> Can somebody tell me how I can unistall and reinstall the package RaQ4-
> en-System-1.0.7-9229.pkg

When you run the uninstall package - what is left dopes it remove the entry
from /var/lib/cobalt and leave the uninstaller directory below or is the rpm
still there (rpm -qa) you might need to untar the pkg to find the name of
the rpm.

It is quite usual for there to be no message from the uninstaller at the
command line unless the uninstall is written to send a message (nice ones
do).  Another way to confuse the pkg is to delete the entry in
/var/lib/cobalt and then reinstall the pkg it should do it without
complaining if that is what you want to achieve.

Gavin