i have already installed wine-20030408-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm but unknowingly i
have deleted some files accoscited to wine.so i wanted to reinstall the same
package.so i have tried uninstalling the package.i did

#rpm -e wine-20030408-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm

it says

error: package wine-20030408-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm is not installed

but when i try reinstalling the same package it says

#rpm -i wine-20030408-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm

package wine-20030408-1rh8winehq is already installed


have even tried upgrade option too but it did not work.is there any file listing packages name
where i can remove the name of wine package from it.or any other go to do.

**********thank you****************************

When you uninstall an rpm you don't use the .rpm extension in the command. Try this.

rpm -e my_package (without the .rpm extenstion)

i have even done

#rpm -e wine-20030408-1rh8winehq.i386

but again i get the same message

error: package wine-20030408-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm is not installed

my machine is P4 i686 is there any problem with that iam using i386

version.
i have downloaded wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i686.rpm
then when i

install it,it says

error: wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i686.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed
error: wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i686.rpm cannot be installed

so what should i do?

Try it with just the name which is wine not with all the versions so it should be:

#rpm -e wine

to get the exact name, try "rpm -qa | grep wine". it might seem a little confusing but hopefully you can understand why this is the case.

when i uninstall by

#rpm -e wine-----------------it says



error reading information on service wine: No such file or directory
error: %preun(wine-20030408-1rh8winehq) scriptlet failed, exit status 1


what should i do now?

im having the same problem, i accidentally deleted some wine files and when i try to uninstall it wont let me so i tried deleting all the wine files on my comp to hopefully remove it but there is a registry somewhere telling my system (red hat 9) that wine is still installed, i guess like praveen i need to know how to tell my system wine is dead and gone so i can reinstall it, any ideas?

Try installing it from source.`

Try installing it from source.