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Old 03-01-2004, 08:34 PM   #1
shadow
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wine uninstall


I installed wine and messed it up now i want to uninstall it and reinstall

system fedora core 1

rpm - e than rpm page name

result is rpm -e wine-20031212-1fc1winehq.i686
error reading information on service wine: No such file or directory
error: %preun(wine-20031212-1fc1winehq) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

also wine as a service is gone

so now it's installed but don't work.
can't uninstall can't reinstall
 
Old 03-29-2004, 11:20 AM   #2
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I've triede this many times (lol). It happened when I pressed Ctrl + c when uninstalling.
I did the thing by "#rpm -Uhv thesamewinepackage.rpm --force". The after you can use "#rpm -e wine"
 
  


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