Re: Can't remove old RPM

[Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
> 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

use --noscripts

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