Wine
 

SO im using fedora core 1 and I installed wine, But it was the wrong ne so I removed it and i tried to install the right one but it says "Package installed" I deleted every file that pertains to wine but alas no luck.

Fedora uses rpm-packages. You install packages as an rpm, and the information about the package and installation is saved in the rpm-database. If you remove a package just by deleting the files the database doesn't know the package is removed. You should have removed the package with the rpm command. In a shell as root, execute:

rpm -e name_of_the_package

The name of the package is the name of the rpm you downloaded minus some suffixes. Always bit of a problem finding the name of the package. If rpm refuses to remove it because it's incomplete there must be a option to do it by force, just take a look at the man page by typing

man rpm

I don't have rpm (I'm using debian, with debian packaging) so I can't help you any further than this. Succes.

Stargazer

Re: Wine
 

Hence I already used the rpm -e "wine" command.

When you install it use the -f switch (rpm -if foobar)

-Joey

Im sorry im a little confussed can you be more precise?

try rpm -Uvh package.rpm. dos was a 1000 times easier to learn just a few commands. linux 100's to learn lol but its free.

c:\
c:\dos
c:\dod\run
run:dos\run.