[2753] in RedHat Linux List
Re: What am I doing wrong with RPMs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Ghazey)
Tue Nov 5 10:38:08 1996
From: "Mick Ghazey" <mghazey@lowdown.com>
To: toddw@cyberhighway.net, redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:31:52 +0000
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On 4 Nov 96 at 21:51, Todd wrote:
> [toddw@myhouse toddw]$ su -
> Password:
> [root@myhouse /root]# cd /cdimage/RedHat/RPMS/
> [root@myhouse RPMS]# rpm -i XFree86-3.1.2-11.i386.rpm
> package XFree86-3.1.2-11 is already installed
> error: XFree86-3.1.2-11.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> [root@myhouse RPMS]# rpm -e XFree86-3.1.2-11.i386.rpm
> package XFree86-3.1.2-11.i386.rpm is not installed
If you want to remove a package you specify the package name without
the ".i386.rpm" extension. The clue is that rpm reports only that
part of the name when you -i it. BTW, -Uvh is what you normally want
to use when installing. It updates if an older package already
exists.
Mick
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