Re: My RPM is installed. No it isn't. Yes it is. No..

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:59:06PM -0500, caffeine1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> $ sudo rpm -i RPMS/i386/foo-0.0.1-1.i386.rpm 
>     package foo-0.0.1-1.i386.rpm is installed
> $ sudo rpm -e RPMS/i386/foo-0.0.1-1.i386.rpm
> error: package RPMS/i386/foo-0.0.1-1.i386.rpm is not installed
> Is RPM confused, or did I miss a step in my spec file somewhere?

You're trying to uninstall by filename, not by package name. The name of the
file matters to the install command, since it has to know where to look, but
it isn't helpful to the uninstall command, since the name is actually
irrelevant once the package is on your system.

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