RPM – uninstall packages listed more than once

This entry was posted in Linux and tagged RPM on October 21, 2010 by owl

If, trying to do rpm -e You get

error: "package" specifies multiple packages

and looking for that package Your rpm database lists it twice or more

rpm -qa | grep package

package-1.0.00-1

then use the following to uninstall

rpm --erase --allmatches --nodeps package