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Re: Cannot erase rpm-packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timo Leivonen)
Fri Nov 1 05:22:12 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 09:41:40 -0800
From: Timo Leivonen <etmtile@etm.ericsson.se>
Reply-To: etmtile@etm.ericsson.se
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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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
Stupid me. I should have described the detailes correctly.
I'm not confusing rpm package and package-file names.
Actually I detected the problem with glint in the first place.
For some reason glint didn't show all the packages, so I started
to clean up my "3.0.3+/4.0 halfway" with rpm command. Now everything
seems to be OK, except I cannot get rid of couple packages
(which are visible also in glint).
-Timo
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