This may be nothing to do with it, but rpm -ivh <blah.src.rpm> installs
the _source_ for the package, not the package itself. If you then, like
a good little newbie, read the README or INSTALL and build the package
yourself, rpm doesn't know it's installed. To get rpm to install from
source, you have to use rpm -bi on the spec file that it installs with
the source. If you did make install yourself, _some_ packages have an
uninstall target for make.
If the bit about the <..src.rpm> was just a red herring,
you might try rpm -qail |less and see if you can figure out what rpm
calls it.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, JF wrote:
>
> I've successfully installed two rpm packages. ("successful" meaning
they
> seem to run fine as documented) Now, when I try to uninstall with rpm
> -e <appname> they tell me they're not installed. Also query tells me
> they're not installed! But they are indeed.
>
> I'm leaving off the version numbers when using -e and have tried every
> possible variation of the filename/appname and no joy.
>
> Anyone have a clue as to why rpm can successfully install a package
with
> rpm -ivh <app.ver-x-x.src.rpm> etc.... and then not know of its
> existence, update it in the database or be able to uninstall it?
>
> --
> thanks,
> Jamie Faunt
> RH 5.2 kernel 2.0.36-0.7
>
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