Re: rpm package "installed" and "not installed"

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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, xavier.sinecosa wrote:

> I installed a the speex-1.0.3-2.1.i386.rpm package and tried
> thaen to uninstall it in order to do an upgrade, but the
> package seems to be installed from "rpm -Uvh" and not
> installed from "rpm -e"!
> Here is what I get: 
> 
> # rpm -Uvh speex-1.0.3-2.1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...               
> ########################################### [100%]
>         package speex-1.0.3-2.1 is already installed
> # ldconfig
> # rpm -e speex-1.0.3-2.1.i386.rpm
> error: package speex-1.0.3-2.1.i386.rpm is not installed
>
Normally when upgrading a package the epoch, version, release has 
incremented.  In your case I am guessing this is a dev package
that someone did not bother to increment at least one part of the EVR.
To make rpm do what you want just add --force to the command line.

Cheers...james 


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