sorry, I miss typed the error displayed. It was meant to be -qf :/
Mike
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 21:04, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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