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BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
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|I don't know if this is related or not but I had
|a weird problem with rpm last night.
|
|I installed the gnuchess program from the Fedora
|Extras and this is what happen:
|
| rpm -iv gnuchess-*
|
| Everyting installed without errors.
|
| Tried to run program unde KDE & Gnome
| to no avail.
|
| Went to remove the pacakage via
| rpm -ev gnuchess-*
|
| it told me that the package was not
|installed.
This is correct!
Although, I'm not sure everyone knows this... -e option does not take
wild cards. The -i allows it because they are looking for files and
when you remove a package you are not talking file names anymore.
Best this for this would be to
~ rpm -qa | grep gnuchess-*
Then take that file list and run them to
~ rpm -e ....
|
| Ran another rpm -iv ... and rpm told me that
| the package was already installed.
|
| Huh?
Ok, it already is installed! Remember, we are talking packages not
files here....
|
| Ran rpm --rebuilddb
|
| The rpm system still things that the package
| in not installed ( -e ) and installed ( -i )
| at the same time.
|
|I wound up doing a rpm -qpl gnuchess-* and removed
|the files/dirs myself by hand .... :-(
|
:-( Bad idea...
|
|
Good Luck,
James Kosin
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