"Raymond Norton" <ray at lctn.k12.mn.us> wrote: > > I just installed MySQL-2.23.46-1.i386.rpm on RedHat 7.1 Once done I was > going to set the root password as per the instructions. I couldn't find > mysqladmin, so I was instructed to install the matching client, but > still no mysqladmin. This is what I get: > > When I do rpm -i MySQL-2.23.46-1.i386.rpm I get "Already installed" > > When I do rpm -e MySQL-2.23.46-1.i386.rpm I get "Not installed" In the RPM database, the package doesn't have `.i386.rpm' attached to it. Also, the version usually isn't necessary when you're removing things. Try `rpm -e MySQL'... -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Eat drink and be merry! / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Tommorrow you may be in \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) Utah. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011207/e44b2dcb/attachment.pgp