Re: Permission denied during rpm installation

> that exactly what I did before
>
> $ rpm -q kernel-module-ntfs gave me
> package kernel-module-ntfs is not installed
>
> snow I tried
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep -i ntfs which gave me
> kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5-2.1.27-0.rr.10.5
>
> now I tried to remove the package
> $ rpm -e kernel-module-ntfs gave me
> error: package kernel-module-ntfs is not installed
>
> I had to try
> $ rpm -e kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5-2.1.27-0.rr.10.5
>
> to remove it
>
> why is that so? usually it should be suffifcient to provide the name
> like "kernel-module-ntfs" only, why whole pacakge name including
> version?

Kernel modules are special: you often want to have multiple versions
installed, one per installed kernel. Including the kernel
version/release in the module's package name means that rpm/yum won't
try to remove older module packages for other kernels when you install a
new one.

So in this case, the package *name* is
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5, the package version is 2.1.27 and
the release is 0.rr.10.5.

Paul.


Thanks, something learned. Well I its just a transient problem. :-)

Thanks to all !

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