--- William Hooper <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > > > > I don't know if this is related or not but I had > > a weird problem with rpm last night. > > Not at all related. > > > Went to remove the pacakage via > > rpm -ev gnuchess-* > > > > it told me that the package was not installed. > > If I had to guess I would say that you had the files > in you current > directory, so when bash expanded the wildcard you > were feeding rpm the > file name instead of the package name. > > -- Nice Guess, but I only had the single gnuchess-*.rpm file in a test directory not related to where the rpm package was placing the files.