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Re: [opensuse] rpm -e problem: specifies multiple packages
  • From: Philipp Thomas <philipp.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:18:40 +0100
  • Message-id: <39cfm15lt489nn93191qrvi8so310kpeou@xxxxxxx>
BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:24:12 -0500]:

>Try rpm -e --justdb <package>

That will only delete a package from the rpm database and is in most
cases *not* what you want because you now have files that don't belong
to any package.

Philipp


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