Re: rpm confused

[Achille Miele <achillemiele tiscali it>]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:20, dbrett wrote:
> I am having problem with rpm.  I went to uninstall an program with rpm
> (rpm --erease)  The message I get back is program is not installed.  I
> then installed the program with rpm and the message I get back is program
> is already installed.  I then did a force install with rpm (rpm -ivh
> --force).  This went through without any indicated problems.  I then tried
> to remove the program again and it failed withe same message, program not
> installed.  I then had rpm do a rebuild (rpm --rebuilddb), this appeared
> to work (at least no messages).
>
> What is wrong and how do I fix it.
>
> david

Sometimes happens the same to me, but only with just installed sw. If I logout 
from the shell and login again it gives the right answer.

Achille