Forcing a clean reinstall

[Jonathan Singer]

>From: Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>

>Jonathan Singer wrote:
>
>> After making a shambles of my system trying to upgrade 2.1 to 2.2 with
>> apt-get, I'd like to start over from scratch.
>
>Yellowdog is a Redhat based system, aptget is a Debian based tool - I
>would imagine that if you tried to use aptget it would have toasted your
>system nicely.

apt-get has been ported to RPM, YDL 2.2 ships with the ported version and Yellow Dog supports apt-get updating through their FTP servers.

The problem on my end was that I needed to update rpm to get the apt-get package to work, which then broke a lot of other packages, which forced me to try to fix rpm which broke the RPM database which.... 

The RPM-based apt-get looks promising but I think it needs to be in place from installation to work properly.

>I would suggest backing up your data and reinstalling cleanly from
>scratch.

Uh, yeah, that's precisely what I'm trying to do. Note the subject.