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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?!

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