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2 versions installed, can't remove the bad one

I use the totem-xine player for mpegs and DVDs, and I'm having a problem with it. I manged to get 2 different versions of it installed, and now apt-get throws a fit every time I try to use it. I tried to uninstall the old version, but it gives and error. Here is the output from that:

Code:

[jim@primary ~]$ rpm -qa|grep totem

totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3

totem-xine-0.99.22-1.1.fc3.fr

[jim@primary ~]$ su

Password:

[root@primary jim]# rpm -e totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.63445: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.63445: line 7: `fi||:'

error: %preun(totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 2

I tried going to /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.63445 to see if I could correct whatever the problem is, but it doesn't exist. That confused the hell out of me. Check this out:

Code:

[jim@primary ~]$ ls -al /var/tmp/

total 32

drwxrwxrwt  4 root root 4096 Jan 26 22:33 .

drwxr-xr-x  23 root root 4096 Jan 21 01:13 ..

drwx------  4 jim  jim  4096 Jan 26 22:33 kdecache-jim

drwx------  2 root root 4096 Jan 22 00:44 kdecache-root

I removed the newer version of totem and then tried to remove the old one that generated the error, but still have no luck. Is there a way for me to remove this program?

Thanks,
JimBass

Have you tried to execute just rpm -e totem-xine. If that doesn't work have you tried rebuilding the rpm database???

Please correct me anyone if the syntax is wrong:

rpm --rebuilddb

Let me know.

I tried both of them, but it didn't work. Here's the results:

Code:

[root@primary jim]# rpm -e totem-xine

error: "totem-xine" specifies multiple packages

[root@primary jim]# rpm -rebuilddb

[root@primary jim]# rpm -qa|grep totem

totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.4.3

totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3

Peace,
JimBass

Can you uninstall with rpm -e totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3 now. Does that still return the error? Will apt-get with the -f flag work?

No, I can't uninstall the totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3 now. Same error as show in the initial post. Apt will work if I modify the configs to allow 2 versions of totem, but I would much rather just have one version. There has to be some asbolute removal command for rpm, I tried whatever tag it is for "force", but that seems to only work for installing, not uninstalling.

Peace,
JimBass

Have you tried using synaptic to remove?

also try "yum remove totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3"

Same failure in using yum as just doing the rpm command -

Code:

[root@primary jim]# yum remove totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3

Setting up Remove Process

Resolving Dependencies

--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.

---> Package totem-xine.i386 0:0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3 set to be erased

--> Running transaction check



Dependencies Resolved

Transaction Listing:

  Remove: totem-xine.i386 0:0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3

Is this ok [y/N]: y

Downloading Packages:

Running Transaction Test

Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Test Succeeded

Running Transaction

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.23646: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.23646: line 7: `fi||:'

error: %preun(totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 2



Removed: totem-xine.i386 0:0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3

Complete!

[root@primary jim]# rpm -qa|grep totem

totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.4.3

totem-xine-0.99.22-0.lvn.1.3

Synaptic isn't installed, I'm more of a CLI guy than GUI. apt-get can't uninstall it either, I've tried that already.

Peace,
JimBass