rpm -e problem

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Cornette" <fct-cornette at sbcglobal.net>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: rpm -e problem


> Mike Jensen wrote:
> > as far as i know that package doesn't exist....iiimf-le-xcin does
> > however....not sure if that is what you were trying to remove?  it might
have
> > been getting confused because there are several packages like that that
come
> > with fedora....on core 2 with a full install you get:
> > iiimf-le-inpinyin-0.3-2
> > iiimf-protocol-lib-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-le-newpy-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-client-lib-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-protocol-lib-devel-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-gtk-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-le-unit-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-le-hangul-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-client-lib-devel-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-server-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-le-canna-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-docs-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-x-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-le-xcin-0.1.5-1
> > iiimf-csconv-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> > iiimf-emacs-11.4-46.1.svn1587
> >
> >
> > if this dosen't help let me know, might be way off track
> > On Thursday 12 August 2004 17:47, Paul wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Something odd has happened on the laptop.
> >>
> >>I'm trying to do an update via yum and am getting a pile of problems
> >>with iiimf packages. I don't use iiimf, so there is no harm in removing
> >>it.
> >>
> >>However, rpm -e iiimf-lib-xcin (say) generates the following error
> >>
> >>'iiimf-lib-xcin' specifies multiple packages

If you do "rpm -q xiimf-lib-xcin" you should get the names of all the
packages. If they have different numbers, you can delete the old one, or
better yet select the newest version of the software and use
"rpm -Uvvv --replacepkgs iiimf-lib-xcin-[whatever].rpm" to update it while
replacing all old copies of the package.