On Monday 17 September 2001 09:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i got the following, rather contradicting messages, from rpm!
> anyone has an idea as to what is wrong?
>
> [root@illusion /rpms]# rpm --query NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.rh71up.i386.rpm
> package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.rh71up.i386.rpm is not installed

Try this:
rpm --query NVIDIA_kernel

When you use --query in rpm, you specify only the package name, and not it's 
version number and other details.

> [root@illusion /rpms]# rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.rh71up.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%] package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.rh71up is already installed

That's normal behaviour since the package is already installed.

Regards,
Vinu.

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