removing WinE
 

hello again,

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 :(


can anyone help?

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

gmrpf.. doesn't work either *cry* :cry:

is just starts an new empty line and that's it.. nothing more happens :(

rm -rf /var/lib/__db*
rpm -vv --rebuilddb
rpm -e wine

is it rm -rf /var/lib/__db* or is it rpm -rf /var/lib/__db* ?

Wouldn't there be a grep there?

rpm -qa | grep wine

?

Cool

masterC that doesn't work either :( just copied into temrinal


and DrOzzt's cmds don't work, too :(((

the temrinal just starts a new line and then stops doingt anything.. with all these commands :(

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.

Cool

hmm

"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"

:cry:

Have you since then given this a try again?

Might simply be a db error..

Cool

yes i tried this twice and it didn't work both times

*still needs help* :(

Try reinstalling the RPM, and then removing it, maybe something got lost from the original install?

Cool

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 :)

You'll want the .rpm extension, you want full filenames when installing, but just package names when uninstalling.

The command line is:
rpm -Uvh filename.rpm

To force it:
rpm --force -Uvh filename.rpm

Cool

ok i did this but thtas what happened

then again it starts this empty line and remains so for over 15 minutes without showing any reaction ?( *confused* don't think it's normal that it takes this long...

Problem still remaining I#m finished with my latin and don't know what to do :( I really need help :(

edit:

i downloaded the source code and tried to compile it like discribed in the HowTo, but the only thing i get is this:

so the blank line is back.. it is standing and doing nothing now for over 40 minutes....

Wow, this is quite the sad little bug, or so it would seem. I'd suggest hopping on their mailing list (if they have one) or submitting this as a possible bug. Sadly, in your situation, I can't think of further action you could take other than just saying "no" to "Do you want to remove it first?" or using the RPM method and forcing the new (old) one...

Cool

yes, i also thaught about saying no:

so i'm starting to hate WinE :(