app installed and not installed simultaneously??!!

[George Toft]

 > Had to apply the M$ solution (reboot).

SysAdmin magazine listed this as one of the 10 Best Practices for Unix 
SA's about 3 years ago.  It seems to work for Solaris more than Linux, 
but I am a proponent of rebooting when logic fails.  Sometimes things 
get goobered up.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760




Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> 
> 
>>Mozilla is indeed installed. You essentially told bash to:
>># rpm -e mozilla-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm \
>>mozilla-mail-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm \
>>mozilla-nspr-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm \
>>mozilla-nss-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm \
>>mozilla-psm-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm
>>and you received the correct result.
>>
>>You should have done
>># rpm -e mozilla mozilla-mail mozilla-nspr mozilla-nss mozilla-psm
>>
>>Providing you have yum installed, it'd be simpler to
>># yum remove mozilla
>>instead. It will catch all the dependencies, and ask you to confirm.
> 
> 
> Boy, that went by me like a shot! You're right, of course. 
> 
> After uninstalling and reinstalling, still could not bring up Mozilla. Had 
> to apply the M$ solution (reboot). Now it works perfectly. Still not sure 
> what was going on. 
> 
> Many thanks.
>