I built the whole ZYpp stack on Fedora (9) but zypper is not able to remove packages with an Epoch number. Example: [lorenzo@normandy ~]$ sudo zypper rm devhelp anjuta gtksourceview2 guile libgdl gnome-build autogen-libopts graphviz glade3-libgladeui libgnomecups perl-gettext libgnomeprintui22 libgnomeprint22 autogen Reading installed packages... The following packages are going to be REMOVED: libgnomeprintui22 libgnomeprint22 libgnomecups libgdl guile gtksourceview2 graphviz gnome-build glade3-libgladeui devhelp autogen-libopts autogen anjuta perl-gettext After the operation, 27.1 M will be freed. Continue? [YES/no]: Removing anjuta-1:2.4.1-1.fc9 [error] Removal of (15889)anjuta-1:2.4.1-1.fc9.i386(@System) failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: package anjuta-1:2.4.1-1.fc9.i386 is not installed Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: i [...] Removal of (16168)guile-5:1.8.5-1.fc9.i386(@System) failed: Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: package guile-5:1.8.5-1.fc9.i386 is not installed [...] Packages with Epoch set are so common in Fedora that it is almost impossible to use zypper to remove such packages. I guess that zypper does not strip the '<Epoch number>:' part prior calling 'rpm -e' (or whatever it calls). I don't know if SuSE has a patched version of rpm or packages are not Epoch-versioned at all. My zypper version is 0.11.10 retrieved from openSuSE 11 branch. I'll see if I can make a patch to fix this. Regards -- Lorenzo Villani Blog: http://blog.binaryhelix.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org