RPM is confused

[Kyle Faber]

Greetings!

	It seems like I have had this problem in the past, but I don't think I have 
ever solved it.  I am trying to install a library .rpm file.  

"rpm --install=<packagename>.rpm"
 returns 
*<specified> is already installed.*
which then leads me to type ...
"rpm --erase=<packagename>.rpm"
which returns
*<specified> is not installed on this system*

	This wouldn't be all that big of a deal except that I recently fresh 
installed RH8 on my main system, and I really need these libraries for Xine.  
My Enterprise episode collection is going unwatched and they are lonely....  
;)

Rundown:
RH 8.0 fresh install on Athlon
very few (if any, I forget) non-RH supplied packages or tars installed yet 
(getting xine working again is one of my first projects.)


Thanks!!
Kyle Faber

PS. I realize that apt-get will probably be suggested as a solution to this 
problem.  Debian is installed on a different machine, the machine I can 
break.  This machine is where I try to keep things stable (since I sometimes 
think I know what I am doing when it comes to RH, not Debian)  so thanks 
anyway  ; )