[johnnabn]

Ok i've been fooling around with wine, and try different rpm packages of it. But at some time something went wrong. My Wine RPM says wine is already installed when I click on it. But when I try to remove it ( rpm -e wine ) it returns the following error:

error reading information on service wine: No such file or directory
error: %preun(wine-20020605-2) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

what is causing this, how can I get around it?


thanks
johnnabn

[lynch]

What version of Linux are you using?
At a console type: whereis wine
It should return /usr/bin/wine if it's installed
Also look in the Start menu under system>emulators>winesetup
Change directories to the one where the new rpm is and try the RPM upgrade command instead of the install command:
[b]rpm -Uvh name-of-rpm.rpm
HTH
lynch

[johnnabn]

my version is RedHat 8.0 (physche) kernel 2.4.14-18

whereis wine returned : /etc/wine.reg

there is no system folder in my start menu, but I dont see under the system settings or system tool either

i dont really want to upgrade I want to get rid of wine completely. Do I just delete /etc/wine.reg?

thanks
johnnabn

[johnnabn]

this may help explain the problem (taken directly from terminal):

[root@localhost root]# rpm -qa | grep wine
wine-20020605-2
[root@localhost root]# rpm -e wine*
error: package wine-20020605-2.i386.rpm is not installed
error: package wine-devel-20020605-2.i386.rpm is not installed
[root@localhost root]# rpm -e wine-20020605-2
error reading information on service wine: No such file or directory
error: %preun(wine-20020605-2) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
[root@localhost root]# rpm -Uvh wine-20020605-2.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package wine-20020605-2 is already installed
[root@localhost root]# rpm -e wine*
error: package wine-20020605-2.i386.rpm is not installed
error: package wine-devel-20020605-2.i386.rpm is not installed
[root@localhost root]#


how is my wine version wine-20020605-2 if its not installed? i tried upgrading it said its already installed. I'm very confused.

thanks
johnnabn