On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:42:55 +1300, Michael Honeyfield wrote: > Hi. > > i am using RPM ver. 4.2.1 and I am receving the following error when doing > a "rpm -qa /path/to/file" >From the man page: QUERY OPTIONS The general form of an rpm query command is rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options] PACKAGE SELECTION OPTIONS: PACKAGE_NAME Query installed package named PACKAGE_NAME. -a, --all Query all installed packages. To query a package (RPM file): select-options [PACKAGE_NAME] [-a,--all] [-f,--file FILE] [-g,--group GROUP] {-p,--package PACKAGE_FILE] So ... you need "rpm -qp" not "rpm -qa" - K. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list