--- James Kosin <jkosin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > > | > |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 Huh? The wild card on the gnuchess-*.rpm name is suppose to be resolved by the shell before the rpm command sees it.
