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Title: Reluctant rpm uninstall
Post by: Graham on November 22, 2003, 11:17:35 AM

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could comment ?

I have tried out Arkeia on my test server which seems ok.

I now want to remove it - however I get 'package not installed'
messages from rpm . . .

I have tried the advice on rpm.org ;

 b) Remove stale locks
cd /var/lib/rpm rm -f __db*

c) Try rebuilding the indices (which also does sanity checks on data)
rpm --rebuilddb -vv

I then repeated the uninstall command which renders the same results  ie package not installed ???

I have also trawled this forum and although there are related issues non seem to match.

Any pointers welcome !

Title: Re: Reluctant rpm uninstall
Post by: Terry on November 22, 2003, 01:43:46 PM

Since you don't actually mention what command you're using, I'll give you an example, you need to make sure you're entering it correcctly.
Say I wanted to uninstall "e-smith-portforwarding-0.2.0-02.rpm", I would type rpm -e e-smith-portforwarding-0.2.0-02 (note the dropping of the .rpm).  Is this what you're doing?

Title: Re: Reluctant rpm uninstall
Post by: Dan Brown on November 22, 2003, 04:45:13 PM

Terry, you don't even need the version--just 'rpm -e e-smith-portforwarding' will do.

Title: Re: Reluctant rpm uninstall
Post by: Graham on November 22, 2003, 10:17:09 PM

Thanks Terry / Dan,

Yes - thats exactly what I was doing (as well as a few other variations:)

Still cant figure out whats going on !

Graham

Title: Re: Reluctant rpm uninstall
Post by: Doug M. on November 23, 2003, 03:25:08 AM

Try to re-install the package and then try to remove it. Work for me once with this same problem. Different rpm though. Can not remember which. May need to force if to responds already installed. Then try to remove.