On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 13:16 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > I did rpm -q --whatprovides helix and nothing > > came up. There ought to be a law. > > There is. rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/helix or > rpm --qf $(which helix) should have helped you. > > (Not that that command returns anything on my system, but then I erased > HelixPlayer long ago.) > > I'm a bit worried about this talk of rm -rf on RPM managed files -- it's > not best practice, since it will mean that RPM thinks files exist that > aren't there in reality. It means that yum will quite happily install > any updated version of HelixPlayer and restore updated versions of those > files. > > At the very least, using rpm -qf /path/to/file and *trying* to uninstall > the package concerned will leave you with a consistent system. You may > well find that any dependencies on the package can themselves be lost. Thanks for the heads-up. I was very much aware of this, but was pushed to great lengths to resolve the problem at 3AM while royally 'indignant'. (took me a minute to think of a word that wasn't profane) I later did rpm -e HelixPlayer, once a kind soul put the correct verbiage there for me to use. I thought the default for --whatprovides was /usr/bin - my bad. Blew off totem too. Mplayer is my swiss army knife that works. All the time. When I get to FC6, I'll know better what to install and what not to install. Xine rocks, and Kaffine does too. No problems with those apps. My kudos to those folks. I do have totem-xine installed, which seems to be solid. Thank you again, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
