Re: problem using rpm -e

["A. S. Budden" <redhat mail southparade vispa com>]

Thus spake Earl Eiland:
> I installed a program using rpm.  It's not running properly, so now want
> to remove it.  When I execute rpm -e filename, I get the error message
> 'filename not installed'.  How do I uninstall?

Lose the version number -- e.g.

$ rpm -qa | grep emacs
emacs-21.2-33
$ rpm -e emacs

Hope that helps

Al