Wayne wrote:
> All,
> When I try to uninstall any RPM packages I have on my machine I get a "XXX
> package not installed". Is this typical? DO you have to run the uninstall
> from the directory where the package is installed?
It must be because you don't provide the right package name to rpm :
If you install xmms, you'll type : rpm -Uvh xmms-0.9.5.1-7mdk.rpm, but this is
the name of the FILE containing the package. The package name itself is :
xmms-0.9.5.1-7mdk.
If you want to uninstall this package, just typing 'rpm -ev xmms' is enough.
(But you can also type xmms-0.9.5.1 or xmms-0.9.5.1-7mdk) But anyway, the
".rpm" is NOT part of the package name.
For further details, take a look at "maximum rpm" available at
http://www.rpm.org
HTH
Flupke
> Wayne
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