I can not delete festival-1.4.2-18

[jvmagic]

I have erased this same RPM on a few other systems (REL 4) but on this system (Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 update 5) I have not been able to.


# rpm -evv festival-1.4.2-18
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
D: read h# 673 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
D: ========== --- festival-1.4.2-18 i386/linux 0x1
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Requirename rdonly mode=0x0
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Requirename
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
D: mounted filesystems:
D: i dev bsize bavail iavail mount point


Any idea on how I can erase this RPM?

thanks in advance.

[SlowJet]

You need the complete package name (from rpm -qa)
You can use --nodeps to erase just festival but that would leave broken deps gnome-speech, festvox-slt-arctic-hts (or whatever you get)

$ rpm -qa festival
festival-1.96-16.fc12.i686
[darwinhwebb@Ruthie-07 ~]$ rpm -e festival-1.96-16.fc12.i686 --test
error: Failed dependencies:
festival >= 1.96-0.11 is needed by (installed) gnome-speech-0.4.25-3.fc12.i686
festival is needed by (installed) festvox-slt-arctic-hts-0.20061229-16.fc12.noarch

[darwinhwebb@Ruthie-07 ~]$ rpm -e festival-1.96-16.fc12.i686 --nodeps --test

SJ

[jvmagic]

thanks for the reply but when I do this command, it just hangs:

rpm -e festival-1.4.2-18 --test


any other ideas?

[SlowJet]

u hv ml

do this this command;
rpm -qa festival
<festival...release.arch>
rpm -e <festival...release.arch> --nodeps

SJ

[SlowJet]

I don't know why it does not have a release.arch.
ask redhat

SJ