Hi,
When I try the rpm -q [packagename] I got the exact same error.
Vincent
>
>hello vinzent,
>
>you dont have any problem with you're rpm-database or any other problems
>with the software ...
>to uninstall a package you've to name the package with versionnumber ...
>you can't only name the filename as they often do not include the version
>number
>so you'll jast have to make a "rpm -q [packagename]" then you see the
>exact name of the packege and that's the name you have to use for
>uninstalling.
>
>greetz
>
>Andreas Hupfau
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>On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Vincent van't Hoog wrote:
>
>>
>> I have run intro some problems with RPM on my suse 5.3 linux box
>>
>> When I install a RPM with
>>
>> rpm -i rpmfilename.rpm
>>
>> everythings OK.
>>
>> When I want to query the installed rpm or delete the installed rpm
>>
>> (with rpm -e rpmfilename.rpm or wpm -e rpmfilename)
>>
>> I got a message saying that it cannot be done since the file is NOT
>> installed.
>> When I do a rpm -i filename.rpm again, I got a message saying that the
>> package is already installed.
>> The files are on my system, so they are installed.
>>
>> What's going on? Can somebody help me out with this one?
>> I already tried to rebuild the rpm database with rpm --rebuilddb
>>
>> Vincent
>>
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