On 2002-07-17, Trevor Fraser wrote: TF> I've been using RedHat for a while now, but a person doesn't seem to learn TF> certain things untill you hit a problem. What my problem is, is when I try TF> and uninstall a rpm using "rpm -e", the comment is that the package is not TF> installed, and when I "rpm -i" the package, it says its already installed. TF> What don't I know? To me this doesn't make sense. I'm in the TF> /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/ directory, maybe I'm int the wrong dir. Please help. TF> TF> Another thing is I've installed samba at installation, and I don't find the TF> swat service anywhere. Using mc, I try find "swat*", but to no avail. Again, TF> please help. TF> TF> Red Hat 7.3 (Valhalla) TF> Kernal 2.4.18-3 on an i586 First of all, you should subscribe either to valhalla-list or redhat-list, as this type of question has nothing to do with Red Hat Linux _development_. You are most likely trying to remove a package with its full file name instead of its package name. Consider this file name: example-1.0-5.i386.rpm "example" is the package name, "1.0" the software/content version, "5" the package version. The rest is irrelevant here. rpm -ivh example-1.0-5.i386.rpm would install the package from file. rpm -e example or rpm -e example-1.0-5 would erase it. rpm -q example or rpm -q example-1.0-5 would see whether it is installed. It makes sense to leave out the version numbers since you often remember only the package name and then query which version of it is installed: $ rpm -q example example-1.0-5 HTH, Michael -- _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
