using rpm

boToo · 11-06-2003, 07:56 PM

Hi
i have redhat 9. I have little bit of problem with rpm. i just installed realplayer rpm packet. but right after that i queried using "rpm -q rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm". but it said packets is not installed, how could that be. i just installed and able to run it , could anyone point it out?
Thanks

Tinkster · 11-06-2003, 08:14 PM

Try a
rpm -qa | grep -i rp8

Often the name of the packet in the
database doesn't reflect the name of
the file installed from

Cheers,
Tink

boToo · 11-06-2003, 08:25 PM

Hi Tink
Thanks for ur reply. it didnt find it , well, it can find anything it installed as default, but it cant find anything that i installed by myself , such as xine and others like realplayer in this case, i have no idea on it, what if i want to uninstall it , that would be a problem,

boToo · 11-06-2003, 08:53 PM

I found it, rpm -qa|grep Real, oh well, anyway, so rpm only can be used to uninstall rpm packets, how about otherfiles, that we install from .tar, how do we uninstall them, just make uninstall??

Tinkster · 11-06-2003, 09:03 PM

May work in some cases. Not all
tarballs implement uninstall, though.

What I use to do is make a package
from my compiled tarball, using
checkinstall

Checkinstall will allow you to generate
Slack, RPM or debian packages :)

Cheers,
Tink

boToo · 11-06-2003, 09:10 PM

thanks Tink

Tinkster · 11-06-2003, 09:17 PM

Pleasure mate.

As for the usage of grep... you really should
go with the -i option sometimes, because Linux
is case-sensitive by default, and -i in grep will
ignore case ;) in searches (same for locate,
btw)

Cheers,
Tink

boToo · 11-06-2003, 09:22 PM

i keep it in mind for next time, i didnt know before,
Thanks again mate,