Thanks Michael for the reply. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Schwendt" <msrh@gmx.de> To: <redhat-devel-list@redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 10:42 PM Subject: Re: Installing rpm's > 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 _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
