On Tuesday 29 May 2001 07:15 pm, Bobby Welch wrote:
Bobby,
It sounds like your problem is how you're calling the comands. The install
command works different from the uninstall command.
To install:
rpm -Uvh filename.rpm
To *un*install:
rpm -e filename
The best way to see what you have to type to uninstall an rpm is to watch
what it says when it's installing. For example, if you install
kdelibs-22.0alpha.i386.rpm (not a real filename, but an example), you'll see
something like this:
kdelibs #############################
To uninstall, you would type "rpm -e kdelibs" rather than the whole filename.
Hope that helps explain things.
> Hello,
> When I install an rpm (rpm -Uvh filename.rpm) everything goes ok.
> But, when I go to unistall the rpm it says that the rpm does not exist?
> But, if I try to install it again it says that it has already been
> installed? I even try to update the rpm data base (rpm -i --rebuilddb)
> but I still cannot unistall rpms. Anyone have any idea what the problem
> could be?
>
> Thanks
