Strange RPM

[Paul Howarth]

Maciek R. wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 13:31 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>Please post the output of:
>>
>># rpm -q <package name>
>># rpm -ivh <package file name>
> 
> 
> [root at ferrari i386]# rpm -q bcm5700-7.3.5-1.i386.rpm
> package bcm5700-7.3.5-1.i386.rpm is not installed
> [root at ferrari i386]# rpm -ivh bcm5700-7.3.5-1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>         package bcm5700-7.3.5-1 is already installed
> 
> 
> 
>>Replacing <package name> and <package file name> with the actual names.
> 
> 
> Don't know what you mean by that ;-)

You're using the package filename for the database query instead of the 
package name. Try "rpm -q bcm5700" and you'll see that the package 
bcm5700 is already installed.

Installations use filenames; just about every other RPM action uses 
package names.

Paul.