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I've installed the latest version of WinE, but it's not really working. A friend told me that an older version would be more stable an better working. but now ich can't uninstall the currently installed WinE
Currently installed: wine-20030813-1rh9winehq.i386.rpm
installed with root-login: rpm -Uvh wine
now i can not uninstall this programm to replace it with an older one
i tried rpm -e wine and rpm -q wine but both don't work the console just starts a new line without anything in it and that was it
the actual name registered in the rpm database shouldn't be just "wine", it should also have the version/build etc after it.
do a "rpm -qa wine" to find out
then use rpm -e to uninstall
Originally posted by Demonbane the actual name registered in the rpm database shouldn't be just "wine", it should also have the version/build etc after it.
do a "rpm -qa wine" to find out
then use rpm -e to uninstall
Are you sure it's not grepping or running **something** that is just taking a while? Sometimes what seems like a "blank line" is actually just a hesitation, give it a few to see if it finishes.
Terminal
[root@localhost root]# rpm -e wine
Fehler beim Lesen der Informationen über den Dienst wine: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Fehler: %preun(wine-20030813-1rh9winehq) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
[root@localhost root]# rpm -qa | grep wine
wine-20030813-1rh9winehq
[root@localhost root]# rpm -e wine-20030813-1rh9winehq
Fehler beim Lesen der Informationen über den Dienst wine: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Fehler: %preun(wine-20030813-1rh9winehq) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
[root@localhost root]#
"Fehler beim Lesen der Informationen über den Dienst wine: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" means "Error while reading information about the service wine: file or directory not found"
hm the packe install manager says "This package is already installed" and I'm ashamed but i don't know the console command.. i tried rpm -a wine-20030813-1rh9winehq.i386.rpm and rpm -f wine-20030813-1rh9winehq.i386.rpm but didn't work
and i also tried without this .rpm externsion
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