[6535] in RedHat Linux List
Re: cannot erase rpms!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Wed Nov 27 22:58:50 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:57:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
To: redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <329D0BB1@spc.org.nc>
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On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Al Blake - SPC wrote:
>
> I need to remove a lot of superfluous rpm from my 1.2.13 installation.
> However when try:
>
> rpm -e fortune-mod
>
> I get ....
>
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
>
> cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> seems like rpm is using an extra / in front of the path. Can anyone tell
> me how to get around this?
The extra / makes no difference to any programs.
Are you erasing the package as root? A normal user doesn't have the access
to do that stuff (normal users can only query).
-- Elliot
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