Re: RPM has problems recognizing installed packages

[Didier Casse <didierbe sps nus edu sg>]

Please read below:

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Carlos wrote:

> Quite frequently RPM on RH 8.0 seems to have trouble 
> indentifying installed packages. I just installed a 
> java_plugin and after installing a ask "rpm -qi 
> packagename" and I get the message that the package is not 

I never got this problem unless I put a wrong "packagename". For 
instance Sometimes a 
package is written as A.rpm but when you install it goes like

A-1 installed.

so if you query rpm -q A, the system will tell you that it's not
installed. The way to see if a package is installed it to do something
like:

rpm -qa | grep packagename

and it will give you the exact name of the package installed, which is 
much better. Hope this helps. It's useful if you want to remove the 
package later on.




regards,
Didier

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