YUM install/remove general question
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:59 am
Hey,
My system is running quite happily so I'm just after some general information on installing and removing programs via YUM. I have clamd, qmail-scanner, maildrop, clamav (and freshclam) on my system from the YUM repository. I wanted to re-install these programs.
Is yum remove suppose to remove everything about the above packages?
I tried "i.e. ./yum remove clamav" and there were still traces of the programs on my system such as the conf files, clamav database, freshclam cron job.
I manually deleted everything I could find, but when I re-installed it did not re-install everything. I didnt have a cron job for freshclam (cron.daily). I had to run ./freshclam to retrieve the databases or clamav wouldnt start. A log file was missing in "/var/clamav/". I'm fairly sure that the first time round all I did was "yum install <program>" and everything just worked.
So can someone tell me if YUM remove <program> is suppose to remove everything installed by that program? and why YUM install <program> may not have re-installed all the files that were installed the first time around? Does YUM have some sort of database/history file so it logs what is installed/removed and so does not try re-copying some files so it doesnt over write them.
Hope my question makes sense
Thanks
My system is running quite happily so I'm just after some general information on installing and removing programs via YUM. I have clamd, qmail-scanner, maildrop, clamav (and freshclam) on my system from the YUM repository. I wanted to re-install these programs.
Is yum remove suppose to remove everything about the above packages?
I tried "i.e. ./yum remove clamav" and there were still traces of the programs on my system such as the conf files, clamav database, freshclam cron job.
I manually deleted everything I could find, but when I re-installed it did not re-install everything. I didnt have a cron job for freshclam (cron.daily). I had to run ./freshclam to retrieve the databases or clamav wouldnt start. A log file was missing in "/var/clamav/". I'm fairly sure that the first time round all I did was "yum install <program>" and everything just worked.
So can someone tell me if YUM remove <program> is suppose to remove everything installed by that program? and why YUM install <program> may not have re-installed all the files that were installed the first time around? Does YUM have some sort of database/history file so it logs what is installed/removed and so does not try re-copying some files so it doesnt over write them.
Hope my question makes sense
Thanks