man rpm
UNINSTALL OPTIONS
The general form of an rpm uninstall command is
rpm -e <package_name>+
--allmatches
Remove all versions of the package which match
<package_name>. Normally an error is issued if <package_name> matches
multiple
packages.
--rdp
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
> Well, I'm in trouble. Whilst updating my RH 6.2 system, I was gicen
> notice that one of ximian's sane packages was of a later version than
> what I was trying to install. So I did this:
>
> rpm -Uvh xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1.i386.rpm
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> 1:xsane-gimp ########################################### [100%]
> ln: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/lib/gimp/1.0/plug-ins/xsane' to
> `../../../..//bin/xsane-gimp': No such file or directory
> error: execution of %post scriptlet from xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1 failed,
> exit status 1
>
> Being foolish, I tried repeatedly. Still no luck. Now i have this
> problem:
>
> sudo rpm -qa | grep sane | sort
> sane-1.0.1-4.1
> sane-devel-1.0.1-4.1
> xsane-0.82-1.1
> xsane-gimp-0.75-ximian.4
> xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1
> xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1
> xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1
> xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1
> xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1
>
>
> "Ack!" I cry. I tried:
>
> rpm -e xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1
> error: "xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1" specifies multiple packages
>
> and:
>
> rpm -e xsane-gimp-0.82-1.1 --force
> rpm: only installation, upgrading, rmsource and rmspec may be forced
>
> I just want to get rid of all xsane-gimp packages on this box. Help?
>
>
--
Rich Payne
http://talisman.mv.com
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