Re: [expert] RPM uninstall

[Stephen Carville]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, you wrote:
-Is there any way to manually remove the entries that show up in the
-package manager? I have an instance where I have two different versions of
-the same program installed but both have the same entry in RPM, thus when
-I go to uninstall the program it won't let me saying, "program specifies
-multiple packages". It's no problem manually removing the files for the
-program but I'd like also to get rid of the entries in RPM.

If you specifiy the full package name include the revison and
patchlevel RPM will only remove that package.

For eaxample if "rpm -q glibc" returns:

glibc-2.0.7-29
glibc-2.0.7-30

type "rpm -e glibc-2.0.7-29" to remove the earlier package.

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Stephen Carville
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