On 9 Jan, Vincent van't Hoog wrote:
>
> 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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Have you tried using a graphical tool on the rpm packages? I believe
that 5.3 includes the xrpm package. Just an idea. Perhaps if you see
the package listed you can take a look at the naming convention.
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