How to clean up after RPM?

[zengland]

How do I remove invalid package entries from RPM?
If I installed an RPM package multiple times, and then later manually deleted the files, how do I 'clean up' the entries in RPM?

Thanks

[jeremy1701]

I think this is what you're looking for:

rpm --rebuilddb <options>

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-co...base-mode.html

Good luck!
Jeremy

[zengland]

I tried that, it didn't help
I also tried the -e or --erase option. It complains that there are multiple entries with the same name.

[jeremy1701]

From this lenghty thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=175727

I found this:

sudo rpm -e -vv --allmatches --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers <name of whatever your trying to remove>

Does that work?
Jeremy

[zengland]

Yes! It did!

Thanks.
Now to just convince everyone not to remove files that were installed by RPM.