[SOLVED] Uninstalling xmms

[Akabawi]

Here's what happened,
I installed xmms on my laptop (Fedora 3). I wanted to uninstall it so I used rpm -e. I got a message saying it's already installed. When I try to install it with rpm -Uvh, it gives me a message saying the package is already installed. I tried erasing all xmms files, thinking that it would be a way to uninstall it. But I still got the same messages. Now I'm stuck and can't install or uninstall the package. Any help would be greatly ppreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[Jata]

Ok it's been a few years since I used redhat but I seem to remember using a 'force' option to remove problematic packages like the one you describe.

I.e. rpm -ef <packagename>

I'm pretty sure it's something like that. Somebody more knowledgable will correct me if I'm wrong no doubt.

[Akabawi]

Thanks alot. It worked. I looked around in the man pages. --replacepkgs is what I needed. I reinstalled it and everything is rosey. Thanks again.