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

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:04:08 -0500, Andrew Konosky wrote:

> 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...

Your theory is wrong. The kernel-utils package is the right one.

  $ rpm -qa 'kernel*'
  kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.131
  kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
  kernel-2.6.8-1.521

> I was trying to install an FC1 2.4 kernel rpm,

On FC2? Why?

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Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.7-1.494.2.2
loadavg: 1.08 1.04 1.04