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02-16-2004, 09:28 AM	#1
l2g Member Registered: Feb 2004 Distribution: Red Hat 9, Slackware 9.1 Posts: 55 Rep:	"mv: Can't stat source" Hi, can you please help? really new to Linux. tried to uninstall 1 rpm package called "kernel-mppe-2.4.20-8.i586.rpm" which was just installed. Did manage to locate the package via rpm -qa \| grep... but when I tried to remove it with rpm -e <file> I got the mv: Can't stat source error. what went wrong? I have to reinstall MPPE support through kernelmod and need to remove the previous package first. Thanks again. Liron.

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