Re: Getting rid of a package that will not remove properly

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seth vidal wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 08:38 +0000, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
On 11/11/05, Dwaine Garden <DwaineGarden@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.



in your yum.conf under [main] add:
tsflags=noscripts

then run the command

just remember to remove it afterward.
-sv


Thanks....  It worked perfectly.

Dwaine

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