On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:09 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > <snip> > > 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
