unable to uninstall wine rpm

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Aug 24 14:07:06 UTC 2005


Lovell McIlwain wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am experimenting with wine to try and get rid of My pc since I only
> use it for 2 or 3 applications on an as needed basis.  I didn't have a
> problem installing it but I seem to be having trouble installing it. 
> Here is what I have tried so far:
> 
> [root at Whistler download]# rpm -qa *wine
> wine-20050524-1fc3winehq
> [root at Whistler download]# rpm -e wine-20050524-1fc3winehq
> error reading information on service wine: No such file or directory
> error: %preun(wine-20050524-1fc3winehq.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> 
> Can anyone tell me any other way I can uninstall this  rpm?

Try using rpm's "--noscripts" option.

Paul.




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