RPM oddness with FC2

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Wed Jul 20 17:50:12 UTC 2005


Am Mi, den 20.07.2005 schrieb Mike McCarty um 19:37:

> I decided to uninstall. But then I hit some problems. Here is
> the current behavior of rpm, which I find confusing.
> 
> # rpm -e newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
> error: package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm is not installed

To remove an rpm call it by it's name, not the file name:

rpm -e newlib-68hc1x

> # rpm -i newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
>         package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1 is already installed

> So I'm confused. Can anyone explain this behavior, and give me
> advice on what to do?

rpm -qa | grep newlib

will tell you how the above package is called (I am not sure whether
"68hc1x" is part of the name).

> Mike

Alexander


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