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Old 08-19-2007, 07:14 AM   #1
Muhammed
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Red face how can i remove wine


i am using fc7
i installed wine and now i need to remove it i tried
#yum remove wine
but it didnot work
how can i remove it
 
Old 08-19-2007, 07:58 AM   #2
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Well what message do you get when you try to remove it? And how did you install it?
 
Old 08-20-2007, 05:29 AM   #3
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Well what message do you get when you try to remove it? And how did you install it?
when i installed it i used
#yum install wine
and removed by
#yum remove wine
but it still exist
 
Old 08-20-2007, 05:37 AM   #4
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How do you know it exists? Does 'wine' executable still work?

Try
Code:
rpm -e wine
because basically yum is a tool built around 'rpm'.
 
Old 08-20-2007, 05:52 AM   #5
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How do you know it exists? Does 'wine' executable still work?

Try
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rpm -e wine
because basically yum is a tool built around 'rpm'.
i tried rpm -e wine but ihava a message tells me that wine isnot installed but i still can use wine
 
  


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