app installed and not installed simultaneously??!!

[Eric "Shubes"]

Bob Holtzman wrote:
> All of a sudden Mozilla refused to open using the icon or the command 
> line. Tried the following:
> 
> [root at localhost INSTALLED]# rpm -e mozilla*
> error: package mozilla-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm is not installed
> error: package mozilla-mail-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm is not installed
> error: package mozilla-nspr-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm is not installed
> error: package mozilla-nss-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm is not installed
> error: package mozilla-psm-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm is not installed

Mozilla is indeed installed. You essentially told bash to:
# rpm -e mozilla-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm \
mozilla-mail-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm \
mozilla-nspr-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm \
mozilla-nss-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm \
mozilla-psm-1.4-0.7.3.i386.rpm
and you received the correct result.

You should have done
# rpm -e mozilla mozilla-mail mozilla-nspr mozilla-nss mozilla-psm

Providing you have yum installed, it'd be simpler to
# yum remove mozilla
instead. It will catch all the dependencies, and ask you to confirm.

> [root at localhost INSTALLED]# rpm -ivh mozilla*.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
> package mozilla-1.4-0.7.3 is already installed
> package mozilla-mail-1.4-0.7.3 is already installed
> package mozilla-nspr-1.4-0.7.3 is already installed
> package mozilla-nss-1.4-0.7.3 is already installed
> package mozilla-psm-1.4-0.7.3 is already installed

> "Locate mozilla" shows all files exist.
> 
> If anyone thinks I know what's going on you're wrong.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advace.
> 


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-Eric 'shubes'