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Uninstalling Using RPM (Linux)

To uninstall IBM Informix products that you installed manually with RPM, follow the procedures below.

You must uninstall the old version of the database server before you install the new version with RPM.

Note:
If the same version of Dynamic Server, or different versions, whose subcomponents, such as GLS or messages, are installed on the same machine, RPM might uninstall the wrong one.

As the procedures below show, you must query the package name before uninstalling and then specify that package name when you run the uninstallation. For the specific query and uninstall command, see Table 17 that follows the procedure.

To uninstall IBM Informix products on Linux using RPM
  1. Log in as root.
  2. Run the command to query the package name.
  3. Run the command to uninstall the package.
  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all product packages installed.
Table 17. Uninstalling with RPM
Product Package Command to
Query Package Name		 Command to
Uninstall Package
Dynamic Server rpm -qf bin/oninit rpm -e IIF -fullpackagename
Messages rpm -qf msg rpm -e msg -fullpackagename
GLS rpm -qf gls rpm -e gls -fullpackagename
Client SDK rpm -qf bin/esql rpm -e csdk -fullpackagename
IConnect rpm -qf bin/esqlvers rpm -e iconn -fullpackagename

To discover which particular package or packages owns a file, run the rpm -qf filename command.

For more information, see http://www.rpm.org or the rpm manual pages.

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