Good uninstallation practice?

Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com
Thu Jun 8 17:36:15 UTC 2006


John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:17 +0200, Émeric Maschino wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What's the correct way to manually uninstall a package that failed to
>> uninstall during an update? For example, during the update of
>> hal-cups-utils with today's Rawhide, I'm getting:
>>
>>    Cleanup   : hal-cups-utils               #####################
>> [224/257]
>> error: %postun(hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2.ia64) scriptlet failed, exit
>> status 1
>>
>> I now have hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2 and hal-cups-utils-0.6.0-1 installed
>> on my system and would like to uninstall the old one.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> 	Émeric
> 
> rpm -e hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2

This will still cause the %postun script to fail.  Adding the --nopostun 
option seems to do the trick.

luke




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