Can't add or remove packages in FC4
Robert Locke
lists at ralii.com
Wed Jul 20 20:37:25 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:09 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
>
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>
> Thanks for the clarity Rob.
> I will play with this a little more when
> I get home tonight.
>
> I's assuming I could do the following to clean
> up the rpm database (since I removed gnuchess by
> hand):
>
> rpm -iv --force gnuchess-*.rpm
> rpm -ev gnuchess
>
>
Yep, that will re-install the package and then properly remove the
package.
Alternatively, assuming that you did in fact manually remove "all" of
the files, I think you could do an "rpm -e --justdb gnuchess" which
would simply remove the entries from the database and not do anything
with the filesystem.
--Rob
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