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Re: Cannot erase rpm-packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joachim Paulini)
Fri Nov 1 03:41:50 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:38:23 +0100
From: Joachim Paulini <i2041101@ws.rz.tu-bs.de>
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> 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).
>
> --rebuilddb does not help anyhow.
>
> Obviously the /var/lib/rpm index files are somehow confused.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
Make sure you remove installed rpm's with
rpm -e <name>
instead of
rpm -e <name>-<version-number>.rpm
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Joachim Paulini | Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
j.paulini@tu-bs.de | Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
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