Thanks for everybodies help. Unfortunately I was never able to get rpm to work.
What I ended up to do was find all the files and delete them. I then forced rpm to do a new installation. david On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Achille Miele wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:20, dbrett wrote: > > I am having problem with rpm. I went to uninstall an program with rpm > > (rpm --erease) The message I get back is program is not installed. I > > then installed the program with rpm and the message I get back is program > > is already installed. I then did a force install with rpm (rpm -ivh > > --force). This went through without any indicated problems. I then tried > > to remove the program again and it failed withe same message, program not > > installed. I then had rpm do a rebuild (rpm --rebuilddb), this appeared > > to work (at least no messages). > > > > What is wrong and how do I fix it. > > > > david > > Sometimes happens the same to me, but only with just installed sw. If I logout > from the shell and login again it gives the right answer. > > Achille > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
