Trouble Removing RPM's

[Alan]

> Jim wrote:
>> Alexandru Ciobanu wrote:
>>> Jim wrote:
>
>>>> Please ! Rex I appreciate your help, but I just want to know how to
>>>> remove them.
>>>>
>>> Use --nodeps option, keeping in mind what Rex said :-)
>>>
>> # rpm -e --nodeps gtk2-2.12.1.fc8.1386.rpm
>> error: package gtk2-2.12.1.fc8.1386.rpm is not installed
>> [root at x86_64 mickey]# rpm -e --nodeps gtk2
>> error: "gtk2" specifies multiple packages
>
> OK,
> rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches gtk2
>
> (then say hello to a broken box).

Depends on what you follow it up with.  If you have a mismatched versions
of gtk, doing that followed immediately by a reinstall of the correct
packages will straighten out the problems.  (Not recommended unless you
know what to do if everything goes south on you.)