Unable to remove hddtemp package

Gumper · September 16, 2009, 2:17am

I’m trying to remove hddtemp from my system and I keep getting the following message:

Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: hddtemp                   0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off
whereis  -sbmu ]  -SBM dir ... -f ] name...
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
..unused
error: %preun(hddtemp-0.3_beta15-10.pm.10.1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 6

I remember that there was recently an update to hddtemp that I installed so I’m assuming that my problem has to do with this new rpm.

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to remove this package?

hcvv · September 16, 2009, 10:29am

You give some (error) output, but you do not tell what you did. Call some tool and with what options/parameters?

I would do this with YaST > Software > Softweare Management, serach for hddtem, check it for removal and … But I know there there are other ways to do this.

Gumper · September 16, 2009, 12:22pm

Sorry I didn’t give more information. The way that I tried to remove it was using the method that you gave, using the YaST Software Management tool.

Akoellh · September 16, 2009, 12:29pm

man rpm:

   --noscripts

   --nopre

   --nopost

   --nopreun

   --nopostun
          Don't execute the scriptlet of the same name.  The --noscripts option is equivalent to

          --nopre --nopost --nopreun --nopostun

          and turns off the execution of the corresponding %pre, %post, %preun, and %postun scriptlet(s).

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Akoellh · September 16, 2009, 12:49pm

P.S.

Such errors are mostly packaging problems, so post your bugreport on the packman ML, instructions how to do that can be found here:

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