Accidently installed wrong rpm, now I can't get rid of it!

[Douglas Phillipson]

Andrew Konosky wrote:
> I was trying to install an FC1 2.4 kernel rpm, but I accidently 
> installed the kernel-utils package instead because I wasn't paying 
> attention to the filename. Now when I try to rpm -e it, it has failed 
> dependencies:
> 
> =====
> [root at andrew andrew]# rpm -e kernel-utils-2.4
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        kernel-utils is needed by (installed) lm_sensors-2.8.7-0_32.rhfc2.at
> =====
> 
> Now lm_sensors was already installed, so I don't see how it needs the 
> 2.4 kernel utils package now? How do I get rid of it without getting rid 
> of lm_sensors?
> 
> 
Try rpm -e --nodeps kernel-utils-2.4

Doug P