when you go to delete packages, you youmove them with just the package
name not the file name.
So if you installed an rpm by the name of gimp-1.2.3-5.rpm
(rpm -Uhv gimp-1.2.3-5.rpm)
you would uninstall it with just the package name of simply "gimp"
(rpm -e gimp)
Brian Cluff
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 09:41, Kyle Faber wrote:
> 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 ; )
>
>
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