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How to do a clean uninstall followed by a 10.1 install on Centos 7.2+?

How To


Summary

When install RTM 10.1 on CentOS 7.2+, there are many errors during the installation. How to do a clean uninstall ?

Steps

1. Stop the services

# systemctl stop lsfpollerd # systemctl stop licpollerd

# systemctl stop advocate # systemctl stop crond

 

2. Drop cacti db # mysql -e "drop database cacti"

 

3. Stop MariaDB

 

# systemctl stop mariadb.service

# systemctl status mariadb.service # To verify

 

4. Remove MariaDB InnoDB data and logfiles from innodb_data_home_dir,

by default /var/lib/mysql If you are using the same db for other application, skip this step

 

# cd /var/lib/mysql/

# rm -f ibdata1 ib_logfile*

 

5. Uninstall the RPMs

# rpm -qa | grep "^rtm-" # To list

# rpm -qa | grep "^rtm-" | xargs rpm -e # To remove

# rpm -qa | grep "^rtm-" # To verify

 

6. Delete all files from installation dir, by default /opt/IBM

# cd /opt/IBM; rm -rf advocate cacti flexlm ioncube rtm

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
22 October 2019

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ibm10876074