F9: Unable to remove package: fmt-ptrn

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> Where is what I get:
>
> # rpm -e !$
> rpm -e fmt-ptrn-1.3.17-2.fc9.i386
> Unrecognized option: -p
> Could not create the Java virtual machine.
> error: %postun(fmt-ptrn-1.3.17-2.fc9.i386) scriptlet failed, exit 
> status 1
>
> I tried yum and package-cleanup --cleandupes as well.
>
> How can I force-remove this package?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
As far as I can tell, I used:

rpm -e --noscripts fmt-ptrn

and it seems to work.  I don't need this
package and so far nothing else breaks.

Dan