Accidently installed wrong rpm, now I can't get rid of it!

[Andrew Konosky]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:04:08 -0500, Andrew Konosky wrote:
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>>Well, I used the --nodeps and it removed the package, but now Synaptic 
>>is telling me I have a broken package, which just so happens to be 
>>lm_sensors. I tried the fix broken packages option, but it wants to 
>>reinstall kernel-utils. If I try to reinstall lm_sensors, it wants to 
>>install kernel-utils. What is the deal with this? If I didn't need 
>>kernel-utils in the first place, why does lm_sensors want it now? How do 
>>I fix the dependency issue without reinstalling kernel-utils? I can't 
>>find a kernel-utils package for the 2.6 kernel, and the 2.4 kernel I 
>>tried just gave me a kernel panic, so dont need the 2.4 kernel utils if 
>>the 2.4 kernel doesn't even work...
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>Your theory is wrong. The kernel-utils package is the right one.
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>  $ rpm -qa 'kernel*'
>  kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.131
>  kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
>  kernel-2.6.8-1.521
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>>I was trying to install an FC1 2.4 kernel rpm,
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>On FC2? Why?
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Well I wanted to see if I could get a program working, but it is 
supposed to have bugs when under a 2.6 kernel, but I am just going to 
look for a different program instead.