Can't add or remove packages in FC4

[Robert Locke]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:09 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
> 
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> 
> Thanks for the clarity Rob.
> I will play with this a little more when
> I get home tonight.
> 
> I's assuming I could do the following to clean
> up the rpm database (since I removed gnuchess by
> hand):
> 
>     rpm -iv  --force   gnuchess-*.rpm
>     rpm -ev            gnuchess
> 
> 
Yep, that will re-install the package and then properly remove the
package.

Alternatively, assuming that you did in fact manually remove "all" of
the files, I think you could do an "rpm -e --justdb gnuchess" which
would simply remove the entries from the database and not do anything
with the filesystem.

--Rob