On 05-Jan-2007 08:56.54 (GMT), Ric Moore wrote:
> [root@iam log]# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{ARCH} \\n" |
> grep kmod-nvidia | sort
> kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686
> kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686 <---tried something I got off the web.
If you are going to paste the output of rpm -q into rpm -e, the format is:
rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'
> [root@iam log]# rpm -e kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686 <---tried to erase it
> error: package kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686 is not installed <-- no go
You can't specify architecture with -%{arch} at the end of a package, it's
denoted by a period. And you're missing the release.
You could probably do:
rpm -e kmod-nvidia.i686
Beware that if you have multiple versions installed, it'll remove all of
them if you don't specify the version and release.
> I finally got the sucker, but I have no clue how I got two of 'em.
Packages can be upgraded in two ways - one package replaces the old package,
or the new package sits side-by-side.
If the latter is true, all files in the package must not conflict with the
previous versions.
Kernels install side-by-side, so you can have a new release as well as an
old release. kmod-* packages also work this way, otherwise you wouldn't be
able to install a newer kernel and have working kmod-* packages for both
versions.
In short, what happened was perfectly valid :)
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