Can't remove old avahi package

[Tim Fenn]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:02:23 -0400 "Mark Haney"
<mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> I've got a frustrating little problem. I'm trying to update my system 
> and one package (avahi-autoipd) can't install because of conflicting 
> packages from avahi-0.6.17-1.i386.fc7.
> 
> However, I"ve got the F9 version installed, so that's not a problem.  
> What /is/ a problem is that I cannot remove that package.  rpm -e
> bombs with this:
> 
> [markh at sulla ~]$ sudo rpm -e avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386
> error: %postun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status
> 1
> 

I'm not sure if this is the advisable method, but it will solve your
problem:

rpm -e --nopostun avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386

HTH,
Tim

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