Uninstall programs

[Ice-9]

Just wondering, if you install an rpm package and for one reason or another it doesn't work is there any way to "undo" the installation?

I mean, I'm quite sure this will happen to me sooner or later, I know it has in the past and sometimes you just want to start over fresh.

[voidmain]

Yes, just remove the RPM package with the "rpm -e" command. Better yet, get apt-get and the graphical frontend called synaptic that will make this a breeze for you. You can get them from http://www.freshrpms.net/ and I am going to add that to my tips page next (tonight hopefully), along with your dhcp issue.

[Ice-9]

I installed apt-get for rpm yesterday but I guess I'll have to be a little more patient because freshrpms.net seems down at the moment.
Err http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386 release
  Could not connect to apt.freshrpms.net:80 (66.40.9.130), connection timed out
Err http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/os pkglist
  Could not connect to apt.freshrpms.net:80 (66.40.9.130), connection timed out

I'll just wait and try again a little later.
 

[voidmain]

No it's not down. In fact I just did an upgrade a little while ago. Have you ever installed an app via apt-get or synaptic?  You don't have a proxy set up and block outgoing web traffic without going through the proxy do you?  I only ask because that's the way I have my stuff set up and it requires me to add my proxy and authentication into the apt configuration file.

[Ice-9]

Hmmm, weird, no I don't have a proxy, but my isp requires me to use a proxy though, so maybe that could be it.
This is just a guess, because I have to enter a proxy address to be able to browse the web but I don't have to enter any proxy to be able to connect to an irc server?!

[voidmain]

Aha, yes you most definitely will need to configure APT to use a proxy since it uses the HTTP protocol (web browser). IRC doesn't use the HTTP port (port 80). At any rate if you look in your /etc/apt directory you will find a file called "apt.conf". You'll need to edit that file and add a section that looks like this:

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Change the "http://proxy.somewhere.com:3128/" to whatever your proxy URL is, then on the command line do an "apt-get update", then you can run the "synaptic" graphical frontend. That would suck having an ISP that requires you to go through their big brother proxy server.

The same will be true for any other application that uses the HTTP port. "wget" is one of them. If you want to use wget through your proxy you'll either need to set the proxy in /etc/wgetrc or in ~/.wgetrc. There are comments in the /etc/wgetrc file with a proxy example.

[ November 29, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Ice-9]

Hehe, thanks again, I don't know what I would do without you    

I'm at work right now (I know, I should be working, and I will in a couple of minutes) so I can't try it right away but I definitely will this evening.