Can't remove old RPM

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 14 23:41:30 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 18:39 -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> So how do I get rid avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386 that supposedly not even 
>> installed.
>>     
>
>         rpm -q avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386
>
> to see if it's there, then
>
>         rpm -e avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386
>
> If your RPM database is corrupt, you might want to do "rpm --rebuilddb".
>
> poc
>
>   
I did a below, but had to do a --nodeps to prevent from losing many 
packages and lockup my box.

# rpm -e --nodeps avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386
error reading information on service avahi-dnsconfd: No such file or 
directory
error: %preun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1




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