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On 04 Sep 2003 09:40:48 +0800, Eduardo A. dela Rosa wrote:
> > I installed a program using rpm. It's not running properly, so now want
> > to remove it. When I execute rpm -e filename, I get the error message
> > 'filename not installed'. How do I
> I installed a program using rpm. It's not running properly, so now want
> to remove it. When I execute rpm -e filename, I get the error message
> 'filename not installed'. How do I uninstall?
Perhaps you may have been including the version number of the
package that you were trying to remove,
Dear Earl:
I have found that sometimes the package name that you see by doing rpm
-qa is different from the .rpm file. You should delete the package by
looking at the the name as you get from rpm -qa.
Regards.
Ravi Verma
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:21:22 +0100, A. S. Budden wrote:
> Thus spake Earl Eiland:
> > I installed a program using rpm. It's not running properly, so now want
> > to remove it. When I execute rpm -e filename, I get the error message
> > 'filename not
Thus spake Earl Eiland:
> I installed a program using rpm. It's not running properly, so now want
> to remove it. When I execute rpm -e filename, I get the error message
> 'filename not installed'. How do I uninstall?
Lose the version number -- e.g.
$ rpm -qa | grep emacs
emacs-21.2-33
$ rpm -
