Trouble Removing RPM's

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 12:10 -0500, Jim wrote:
> I have a x86_64 box that has two of the same rpm :
> gtk2-2.12.1-5.fc8.i386.rpm
> gtk2-2.12.1-5.fc8.x86_64.rpm
> 
> I have tried yum and rpm to remove the packages, but to no avail.
> 
> rpm -e gtk2
> rpm -e gtk2-2.12.1.fc8
> rpm -e gtk2-2.12.1.fc8.i386.rpm
> rpm -e gtk2-2.12.1.fc8.x86_64.rpm
> 
> I just want to remove the RPM's

You don't say what happens when you try these commands. Do you get a
dependancy error, a permissions error, a "file not found error"? You
need to be specific. Note that removing gtk2 will only work if you also
remove a lot of other stuff which depends on it. Also, you need to be
root to install or remove packages.

poc