I have a partially installed spamassassin-2.43-2.i386.rpm. what is the rpm command to list all of the files provided by this package? what I would like to do is go ahead and delete each one of the individually, and then see if I can't re-install it and have it go to completion.

a rpm -e spamassassin-2.43-2 nets:

root /tmp:rpm -e spamassassin-2.43-2
service spamassassin does not support chkconfig
error: %preun(spamassassin-2.43-2) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

so I think manually is the only way to go. lemme know if there is a better way ;-) thanks.

To list files
rpm -q[l][s] spamassasin
to remove package
rpm -e spamassasin

worked great, thanks. I deleted each file, however, the rpm registry still thinks the package is installed. how do i delete spamassassin from the rpm registry?

rpm -e --force --no-deps spamassassin

root /tmp:rpm -e --force --no-deps spamassassin
--no-deps: unknown option
root /tmp:rpm -e --force spamassassin
rpm: only installation, upgrading, rmsource and rmspec may be forced
root /tmp:

root ~:slocate -u
root ~:slocate spam*
root ~:

root ~:rpm -qa spamassassin
spamassassin-2.43-2
root ~:

root /tmp:rpm -e --nodeps spamassassin
error reading information on service spamassassin: No such file or directory
error: %preun(spamassassin-2.43-2) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
root /tmp:

figured it out, thanks for the help ;-)

more proof for the fact that rpm is *not*
the best thing since sliced bread ;)

Cheers,
Tink

P.S.: source.tar.gz owns you! :)