Excellent! Thanks! So the reason that the entire name of the RPM packaged file is not contained in the RPM database is that the packaging information is unimportant right? Matthew Polashek Associate Editor, Silver Burdett Ginn - Music Scott Foresman/Pearson Education 299 Jefferson Road Parsippany, NJ 07054-0480 office: 973.739.8709 fax: 973.739.8098 Matthew.Polashek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ---------- > From: Matthew Saltzman > Reply To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:46 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: RPM is reading database incorrectly > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Polashek, Matthew wrote: > > > Anyone know why this happens? > > > > [root@localhost RPMs]# rpm -e xmms-alsa-1.2.8-3.2.fr.i386.rpm > > error: package xmms-alsa-1.2.8-3.2.fr.i386.rpm is not installed > > [root@localhost RPMs]# rpm -i xmms-alsa-1.2.8-3.2.fr.i386.rpm > > warning: xmms-alsa-1.2.8-3.2.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key > > ID e42d547b > > package xmms-alsa-1.2.8-3.2.fr is already installed > > [root@localhost RPMs]# > > > > When I run rpm -q xmms-alsa, the output indicates that xmms-alsa-1.2.8 > is > > installed. Why does this happen and how do I fix it? I can't seem to > find > > this particular problem anywhere in the ether. > > The answer is contained in the question. > > "rpm -q xmms-alsa" finds the RPM in the database, but > "rpm -e xmms-alsa-1.2.8-3.2.fr.i386.rpm" does not. Do you see the > difference? > > Hint: What happens if you try "rpm -e xmms-alsa"? > > Now, "rpm -i xmms-alsa-1.2.8-3.2.fr.i386.rpm" needs the name of the RPM > *file* because the RPM isn't in the database before you install it, but > "rpm -q xmms-alsa" and "rpm -e xmms-alsa" need the name of the RPM > itself, because they are looking in the database for RPMs that are already > there. > > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > **************************************************************************** This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. ****************************************************************************
