Re: rpm doesn't find installed rpm

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:09:45 -0500 Bob Hartung <rwhart netexpress net>
imparted to us:

> Hi,
>   I'm fooling around with CUPS, xpp, etc.  I need to have openssl
> installed
> for this.  When I query with 'rpm -q openssl' I get a response that it
> is
> not installed.  When I query on it's libraries, I get the same result.
> 
>   However when I start up gnorpm and poke around, openssl and its
> libraries
> all are listed as being present.
> 
>   I have 'rpm --rebuilddb' and still this wierdness.
> 
> Ideas?

No real idea, only a wild guess (I use xrpm instead). Maybe gnorpm is
showing a list of available (reading from CD or whatever location[s] you
have configured), instead of installed in the area in which you're
looking.

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