When I did rpm -e ed... on an alpha, got the following message, but all of the package components appeared to be removed. "/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61466 :[: missing ']'"
Fixed in ed-0.2-12.
*** Bug 2195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** moremagic [mc]# rpm -U ed-0.2-12.i386.rpm /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70220: [: missing `]'
*** Bug 3155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** rpm -Uvh ed-0.2-12.i386.rpm (as on RH 6.0 CD) after installation this error message is issued: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.65812: [: missing ']' (the first of those two quotes was a backtick, really)