Removing stuck FC5 packages after FC6 upgrade?

[TheMatt]

Folks, I'm not sure this is the right place for this, but it's in the wake of a new installation, so... Also, I did try #fedora but got no love, so I thought I'd try the forum.

Namely, I'm trying to remove the last vestiges of FC5 off my new machine. One place I'm running into trouble is in FC5 packages with a %postun error. There are at least two that I know of: scim-libs-1.4.4-9.4.fc5 and librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1. Doing a "yum remove pkg" on each of those gives me:

Running Transaction
  Removing  : scim-libs                    ######################### [1/1]
/usr/bin/update-gtk-immodules: line 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gtk.immodules: No such file or directory
error: %postun(scim-libs-1.4.4-9.4.fc5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Removed: scim-libs.i386 0:1.4.4-9.4.fc5
Complete!

and

Running Transaction
  Removing  : librsvg2                     ######################### [1/1]
/usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No such file or directory
error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Removed: librsvg2.i386 0:2.14.4-1.fc5.1
Complete!

Now, there could be others in my "rpm -qa | grep -i fc5" list, but when I noticed that these weren't removed, despite yum saying they were, I decided to stop and see what to do here.

Also, just as an aside, what do I do when an FC5 package is newer than the FC6 package? With kbibtex, installed is 0.1.5-3.fc5 (from FC5 extras), but FC6 extras currently has 0.1.5-1.fc6 according to "yum search kbibtex".

[RustySawDust]

I'm in the same boat... the left-over fc5 packages prevented me from even running yum update! I ended up forcing the removal of the offending package -- "rpm -e --nodeps kdelibs.whateverVersion.fc5". That at least got me to the point that I can do a yum update. Then I did "yum install kdelibs" to get the fc6 package back.

[RustySawDust]

I decided to get really brave and ran:

rpm -e --nodeps `rpm -qa | grep fc5`

That seemed to uninstall all the fc5 packages except librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1 which gave the following error:

/usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No such file or directory
error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Do this at your own risk, I have no idea how hosed my system might be now.

[RustySawDust]

A little strange but I got it to uninstall as follows:

mkdir /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/
touch /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
rpm -e --nodeps  librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1

[u-noneinc-s]

Did you double check those fC5 packages to make sure there were FC6 packages installed?

I upgraded from 3 to 5 and had quite a few FC3 left-overs, but I just left them for the most part (except for the ones that had an FC5 equiv already installed) and I have found that over time, most of the remaining FC3 packages were eventually replaced replaced by updates, and though some remain, they are things like skype with no FC5 package available (that I know of).

[RustySawDust]

I think for the most part that would work, with the exception of librsvg2-2.14.4-1.fc5.1 which would probably never uninstall due to that missing file.