RPM abort left me with half installed program

kenewton · #1 20th October 2004, 05:34 AM

I was trying to install Wine tonight with rpm. The program appeared to be making no progress. I thought it was hung so I pressed CTRL-Z to abort the process. When I tried again, RPM told me that the program was already installed. But when I tried it, it didn't work. So I tried to uninstall it using the erase option. Now, RPM tells me the file is not installed.

Any ideas on what I can do to either completely remove Wine and let RPM know it no longer exists?

james_in_denver · #2 20th October 2004, 07:48 AM

rpm -F packagename.rpm

should do the trick.

ilja · #3 20th October 2004, 10:10 AM

have you tried a
rpm --rebuilddb
?

kenewton · #4 20th October 2004, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by james_in_denver

rpm -F packagename.rpm

should do the trick.

Yes, I have tried that, but it didn't work. I got no response from the command at all. The only thing that happened was a new prompt appears.

kenewton · #5 20th October 2004, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilja

have you tried a
rpm --rebuilddb
?

I've tried this, but it didn't work either. Same problem. I guess I'm stuck.

rogue · #6 21st October 2004, 01:10 AM

Try rpm --force <package> to install, or rpm -e <package> to run the uninstall script before trying to re-install.

kenewton · #7 21st October 2004, 02:22 AM

I tried all the suggestions (except --rebuilddb) before I posted. I tried to force (-F) the install, but nothing happened. I tried to erase the program (-e), but it kept telling the program was not installed. Even after I tried to rebuild the DB, no luck.

Finally, I decided to try using yum to remove Wine, and that worked!

Thanks for all the suggestions. I appreciate the help.

rogue · #8 21st October 2004, 02:41 AM

Good to hear that you got the problem fixed... for future reference to the thread, rpm -F freshens (upgrades) a package if it's already installed while rpm --force compels package installation regardless of status or dependencies.

kenewton · #9 21st October 2004, 04:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogue

... for future reference to the thread, rpm -F freshens (upgrades) a package if it's already installed while rpm --force compels package installation regardless of status or dependencies.

Thanks for the clarification. I've been running Linux for about 2 weeks now and have a lot to learn. Quite a steep learning curve.