Getting rid of a package that will not remove properly

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 11/11/05, Dwaine Garden <DwaineGarden at rogers.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get rid of a rpm package and rpm or yum will not remove
> it.   It's an older package that
> for some reason is on my system.  Can't update the recent rawhide
> updates..  8*(

[ ... ]
> Running Transaction
>   Removing  : swfdec                       ######################### [1/1]
> error: %postun(swfdec-0.3.1-1.1.fc2.fr.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Try "rpm -e --noscripts swfdec". You can't do the equivalent with yum,
as far as I know.

MEF

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