Can't add or remove packages in FC4

[James Kosin]

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BRUCE STANLEY wrote:

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|I don't know if this is related or not but I had
|a weird problem with rpm last night.
|
|I installed the  gnuchess program from the Fedora
|Extras and this is what happen:
|
|      rpm -iv  gnuchess-*
|
|      Everyting installed without errors.
|
|      Tried to run program unde  KDE & Gnome
|      to no avail.
|
|      Went to remove the pacakage via
|            rpm -ev gnuchess-*  
|
|         it told me that the package was not
|installed.

This is correct!
Although, I'm not sure everyone knows this... -e option does not take
wild cards.  The -i allows it because they are looking for files and
when you remove a package you are not talking file names anymore.
Best this for this would be to
~    rpm -qa | grep gnuchess-*
Then take that file list and run them to
~    rpm -e ....


|
|      Ran another   rpm -iv ...  and rpm told me that
|      the package was already installed.
|
|      Huh?

Ok, it already is installed!  Remember, we are talking packages not
files here....

|
|      Ran   rpm  --rebuilddb
|
|      The rpm system still things that the package
|      in not installed ( -e )  and installed ( -i )
|      at the same time.
|
|I wound up doing a  rpm -qpl gnuchess-*  and removed
|the files/dirs myself by hand ....  :-(  
|
:-(   Bad idea...

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Good Luck,
James Kosin
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