That did it! Thanks!
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Rich Payne wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
> >
>
>
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