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Re: Cannot erase rpm-packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Fri Nov 1 02:50:05 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 02:47:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
To: Timo Leivonen <etmtile@etm.ericsson.se>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <32797D84.270C@etm.ericsson.se>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Timo Leivonen wrote:
> I've upgraded my system from RH3.0.3 to RH4.0. There are also some
> additional packages which are not included in "standard" RH
> distributions.
>
> Now it appears that I cannot remove some packages.
>
> rpm --erase xxxx results "package xxxx is not installed"
>
> I've tried to reinstall the packages resulting "package xxxx is already
> installed". --force option does the work, but --erase still says that
> packages are not installed. In reality those packages are installed
> (all the files are there).
Basically you are confusing the difference between the filename that a
package happens to have before you install it, and the name of the package
itself.
For example:
$ rpm -U playmidi-2.3-6.i386.rpm
[ installs it]
$ rpm -e playmidi-2.3-6.i386.rpm
package playmidi-2.3-6.i386.rpm is not installed
$ rpm -e playmidi
[ erases it]
-- Elliot
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B: "Who, you?"
A: "No, me!"
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