Re: Can't remove package from update manager

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 On 10/20/2010 06:36 PM, Silent-Hunter wrote:
>   On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>   On 10/20/2010 08:58 AM, Silent-Hunter wrote:
>>>    I installed a package that I downloaded from the Internet. Not from
>>> any repository. I removed it, but it still wants to update. I tried yum
>>> clean all, but it didn't work. Please help?
>> What was the name of the package you installed?
>>
>> If you do an "rpm -q name-of-package" does it show installed?
>>
>> How did you uninstall it?
>>
> I uninstalled it with the Add/Remove gui. The name of the package is 
> zsnes. I think I may have installed the version for Mandriva Linux by 
> mistake, as the package has the letters 'mdv' in it.  rpm -q zsnes shows 
> only the other zsnes package, the i586 one from the repository. I was 
> trying to install an x86_64 one but it didn't work. That's why I removed it.

So, if you do something like:

rpm -q zsnes

You get something like....

zsnes-1.51-6.fxXX.i586    (NOT real numbers)

???

And you want to remove that?

It really helps if you give complete answers to questions asked by folks
on this list.


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