Hi,

You can use rpm -e with the full package name, version included.

rpm -e rpm-3.0.3-35mdk for example.

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kel


>From: "Mandrake Bugs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [Cooker] kinda unrelated - RPM query
>Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 12:43:42 -0700
>
>Several of my packages show up multiple times, after I screwed around with
>updates via RPMs of newer packages.
>
>kpackage won't let me remove the older packages, claiming that each package
>selction 'refers to multiple packages'.
>
>I can do the CLI rpm -e either, for the same error.
>
>How do I get rid of these packages, without having to reinstall everything?
>
>Harry
>
>P.S. This came originally out of trying to apply an 'update' via RPM, and
>being told that there are 'conflicts' with the older package - Well, duh,
>isn't that the word 'upgrade' is supposed to address? So, when I forced the
>install, by selcting 'REPLACE', I ended up with two copies of the rpms in
>the rpm database, and, in the case of BeroList, incomplete installs.

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