On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:52, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:42:21PM -0400, Benjamin Vander Jagt wrote:
Speaking of that, I have a question that is inappropriate for this list. How come I have never gotten rpm -e to uninstall a package? it always says, "Package not installed". This has been the case for me since Red Hat 8.0...
I'll give 100 to 1 odds that the problem is that you're giving it filenames (foo-1.1-1.rpm) instead of package names (foo-1.1-1 or just foo).
yup, that would be it...I must have mis-remembered how to use it. :-p