On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:

> If I do rpm -qlp [filename], is there a way to keep the output from
> scrolling off the screen?  Also, how do you keep ls from doing the same?

Try piping output through less or more ( e.g. $ ls -la | more )

> Another thing, when I have tried to remove a package using rpm -e, I get
> package not installed when I know its installed.  Do I have a problem
> with the rpm database?  I tried rpm --rebuilddb, but it doesn't help.

Do you specify the package with version number (sometimes helps)? Also,
don't put the i386.rpm (or whatever arch it is) at the end of the
package name.

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