Re: RPM install woe

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On 11 Apr 2003 10:57:12 +0900
Shawn <javajunkie koyuru com> wrote:

> I tried to install Opera by Rpm and then verify that it was there and
> it tells me:
> package opera-6.12-20030305.4-shared-qt.i386.rpm is not installed
> 
> but if I try to install it again I get
> 
> package opera-6.12-20030305.4 is already installed
> 
> so I tried uninstalling it and it seems to have no effect.
> 
> so I tried installing it with --replacefiles
> 
> same problem
> 
> --force didn't do anything
> 
> should I try a rpm --rebuilddb ????
> 
> Shawn 
> 
> PS.  I chose the opera package for RH8 and --test didn't reveal any
> dependency probs.

rpm -q opera

Don't add the rest or it will fail. You can reference some of the rest
when uninstalling something that has multiple entries, like a kernel:


-bash-2.05b# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.4.20-2.2
kernel-2.4.18-14
kernel-2.4.20-8

BAD
-bash-2.05b# rpm -e kernel
error: "kernel" specifies multiple packages

GOOD
-bash-2.05b# rpm -e kernel-2.4.18-14
-bash-2.05b#

-- 
I might be crazier than you think.