Luke Macken <lmacken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:17 +0200, Ã?meric Maschino wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> What's the correct way to manually uninstall a package that failed to > >> uninstall during an update? For example, during the update of > >> hal-cups-utils with today's Rawhide, I'm getting: > >> > >> Cleanup : hal-cups-utils ##################### > >> [224/257] > >> error: %postun(hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2.ia64) scriptlet failed, exit > >> status 1 > >> > >> I now have hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2 and hal-cups-utils-0.6.0-1 installed > >> on my system and would like to uninstall the old one. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Ã?meric > > rpm -e hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2 > This will still cause the %postun script to fail. Adding the > --nopostun option seems to do the trick. Just to make sure, I'd get and force-feed the new package to rpm, in case the uninstallation damaged something (== deleted some files from the new version). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
