On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
> ---Reply to mail from Axalon about [expert] RPM uninstall
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any way to manually remove the entries that show up in the
> >> package manager? I have an instance where I have two different versions of
> >> the same program installed but both have the same entry in RPM, thus when
> >> I go to uninstall the program it won't let me saying, "program specifies
> >> multiple packages". It's no problem manually removing the files for the
> >> program but I'd like also to get rid of the entries in RPM.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jonathan Dlouhy
> >>
> >> Windows Error 018: Unrecoverable error.
> >> System destroyed.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > rpm -e somepackage --allmatches
>
> Worked like a charm. Thanks a lot. This was an argument I couldn't find in
> my documentation. Where is there a source for more RPM information like
> this?
> Thanks!
>
> ---End reply
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