Implementation Guide › Installing and Customizing a UNIX Endpoint › Native Installations › RPM Package Manager Installation › Remove Existing RPM Packages from the RPM Database

Remove Existing RPM Packages from the RPM Database

If you have already installed a CA ControlMinder RPM package that you created yourself, you must remove it from the RPM database so that the database reflects which packages you have installed. If you do not remove the existing package and install the new package, the RPM database will show that both the old package and the new one are installed, but in your file system, files from the newer package overwrite existing files. For RPM to upgrade a package, it has to have the same name as the currently installed package.

Note: Removing the package does not remove any CA ControlMinder files and the native package installation performs an upgrade.

To remove a package from the RPM database, use the following command:

rpm -e --justdb your_ACPackageName