RPM removal double check requested

ToddAndMargo · Post by **ToddAndMargo** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:46 pm

Hi All,

I am running Scientific Linux 6.2 (RHEL 6.2 clone) 64 bit. My version of Wine is:

$ rpm -qa \*wine-core\*
wine-core-1.2.3-1.el6.x86_64
wine-core-1.2.3-1.el6.i686

I will be wanting to remove my 64 bit wine and replacing it with more updated 32 bit wine packages. As far as I can tell, all of the Wine packages start with "wine". So I was thinking that the following would scrub the old guy clean out.

rpm -e $(rpm -qa wine\*)

Am I missing anything?

Many thanks,
-T

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:49 pm

ToddAndMargo wrote: I will be wanting to remove my 64 bit wine and replacing it with more updated 32 bit wine packages. As far as I can tell, all of the Wine packages start with "wine". So I was thinking that the following would scrub the old guy clean out.

rpm -e $(rpm -qa wine\*)

Am I missing anything?

You really need to ask your distro, as this is a package manager/packaging question.

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:31 pm

On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 12:49 -0600, dimesio wrote:

ToddAndMargo wrote:
I will be wanting to remove my 64 bit wine and replacing it with more updated 32 bit wine packages. As far as I can tell, all of the Wine packages start with "wine". So I was thinking that the following would scrub the old guy clean out.

rpm -e $(rpm -qa wine\*)

Am I missing anything?

You really need to ask your distro, as this is a package manager/packaging question.

I'd use yum (assuming it follows the Redhat model and uses it as its
package manager.

"yum line 'wine*'" shows what packages are installed.

My 32 bit Fedora 16 system shows many more installed packages than
you've listed for Wine 1.3.37.

"yum erase 'wine*'" will wipe them out.

'yum install packagename...' will put the 32 bit wine packages back.
You'll have to work out what name to use for 32 bit packages from a 64
bit distro install, but FWIW all my wine packages have 'arch' set to
i686, e.g. wine.i686.rpm, so 'wine*.i686' might be a good starting
point. Check it first with 'yum list 'wine*.i686' and then run 'yum info
packagename' on the first listed package to see if it looks like what
you want.

Martin

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:21 am

On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 21:13 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

"yum line 'wine*'" shows what packages are installed.

That should be: yum list 'wine*'

Martin

ToddAndMargo · Post by **ToddAndMargo** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:53 pm

Martin Gregorie wrote:On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 21:13 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:
"yum line 'wine*'" shows what packages are installed.

That should be: yum list 'wine*'

Martin

I caught that right off the bat.

Thank you for the in depth answer! ( I knew there had be be other folks our there that lived in the RPM world.) Very much appreciated.

-T