I don't think I'm using rpm correctly. I've got RedHat 9 and I've tried to install wine and a trial version of VMwareWorkstation -- following the directions as closely as I could.

Each install had problems, and ended up with a partial installation -- I got dependecy error messages during the installations -- but that's a question for another time.

Right now I want to uninstall both packages. I am operating as the superuser. When I input rpm -q I get the response that both packages are installed. When I try to uninstall them I get an error message. I provide the following dialog with my computer as an example:

# rpm -q VMWareWorkstation
WMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848
# rpm -e WMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848
error: %preun(VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848) scriplet failed, exit status 127
#

So what does this mean? And, what do I do about it?

Thanks,

IIRC, you just specify the name, not the version, to uninstall...i.e.:

rpm -e VMWareWorkstation

but it's been a LONG time since I last used deadrat package manager.

When I do that (rpm -e <just the name>) I get the same response for trying to uninstall VMwareWorkstation as I mentioned above. When I type rpm -e wine I get:

-bash: rpm: command not found

You need to be root...

I am doing this as root.

Since its a broken package try removing it using "rpm -e --noscripts packagename"

rpm -e --noscritps <name>
successfully removed the package.

Thanks

kool