Getting rid of a package that will not remove properly

[Dwaine Garden]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 08:38 +0000, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>   
>> On 11/11/05, Dwaine Garden <DwaineGarden at rogers.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm trying to get rid of a rpm package and rpm or yum will not remove
>>> it.   It's an older package that
>>> for some reason is on my system.  Can't update the recent rawhide
>>> updates..  8*(
>>>       
>> [ ... ]
>>     
>>> Running Transaction
>>>   Removing  : swfdec                       ######################### [1/1]
>>> error: %postun(swfdec-0.3.1-1.1.fc2.fr.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
>>>       
>> Try "rpm -e --noscripts swfdec". You can't do the equivalent with yum,
>> as far as I know.
>>
>>     
>
>
> in your yum.conf under [main] add:
> tsflags=noscripts
>
> then run the command
>
> just remember to remove it afterward.
> -sv
>
>
>   
Thanks....  It worked perfectly.

Dwaine