Re: RPM lies about an installed package

From: Tommy Reynolds (TommyReynolds_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:16:05 -0600

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:45:13 +0000, Mark Healey wrote:

> As root I tried:
> []rpm -e nethack-3.4.3-1.i386.rpm
> and it responded with:
> error: package nethack-3.4.3-1.i386.rpm is not installed

Correct. You gave rpm(1) a filename, not a package name. If you had
used:

# rpm -e nethack

you'ld have removed nethack, assuming it was installed.
 
> Just for shits and giggles I tried:
> []rpm -Uvh nethack-3.4.3-1.i386.rpm
> and it replied with:
> package nethack-3.4.3-1 is already installed

Yup, you tried to install a package that was already installed. You
install packages using a filename -- nothing magical about the
filename.
 
> I then did:
> []# rpm -q -a | grep nethack
> and got:
> nethack-3.4.3-1
> What's wrong?

Well, you have nethack installed ... no productive work will ensue ;-)