Strange RPM

[Paul Howarth]

Maciek R. wrote:
> Hello out there,
> 
> I experienced s.th. strange with rpm. Just entered 'rpm -ivh <package
> name>' in order to install new Broadcom drivers for my ethernet card.
> After that I wanted to remove them by 'rpm -e <package name>'. Wanted to
> install them again 'rpm -ivh <package name>' and now it tells me
> 'package already installed'. If you ask 'rpm' with the '-q <package
> name>' option it tells that it is NOT installed and you are only able to
> install with the '--force' option. And I am confused now, is it
> installes or not? And how do you solve this?

Please post the output of:

# rpm -q <package name>
# rpm -ivh <package file name>

Replacing <package name> and <package file name> with the actual names.

Paul.