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Michael Hipp wrote:
| That works. Thanks. And I feel dumb for not figuring it out.
|
| But why would anyone in their right mind design it so that one of these
| works, but the other doesn't?
|
| rpm -i wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm
| rpm -e wxGTK-2.4.2-1.i386.rpm
|
Because -i installs a package set and -e uninstalls a package name, e.g.
one is a bundle of files and one is already "extracted" which is
recorded in the rpm database. Same as you can't tar -zxvf a .tar file
but you can a .tar.gz file, since the .gz hasn't been gunzipped yet..
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