Re: Issue with uninstalling postgres 8.1.9

On 14/09/2007, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> We have a system that came with pg 8.1.9. When I try to uninstall
> those RPMs, it works for all the rpms except for libs:
>
>
> > rpm -ev postgresql-libs-8.1.9-1.el5
> error: Failed dependencies:
> libpq.so.4 is needed by (installed) apr-util-1.2.7-6.i386
>
>
> I am not sure what this is about and how to uninstall it. I cannot
> leave the "libs" rpm because with it on the system, the equivalent for
> 8.2.4 will not install. For instance, while installing the
> compatibility stuff prior to 8.2.4 --
>
>
> > rpm -Uhv compat-postgresql-libs-4-1PGDG.rhel5.i686.rpm
> warning: waiting for transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> file /usr/lib/libpq.so.4 from install of
> compat-postgresql-libs-4-1PGDG.rhel5 conflicts with
> file from package postgresql-libs-8.1.9-1.el5
> file /usr/lib/libpq.so.4.1 from install of
> compat-postgresql-libs-4-1PGDG.rhel5 conflicts with
> file from package postgresql-libs-8.1.9-1.el5
>
>
> How does one resolve this? How can I uninstall "libpg.so.4"?
>
> I am on CentOS 5, and I'm using the rpms for Red Hat ES 5. Thanks for
> any pointers!
>

Ok, I found the answer to my own question here -
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pgrpm.htm

Hope someone in the same situation finds this bit useful. The mail
archives did not seem to have info about this yet, and quite a bit of
googling brought up that site.