Hi,

By mistake I deleted a directory that contained some program files.

I did a couple of things with rpm trying to get the files back but I don't recall those steps leading up to my current state.

The listing below show that if i try to erase the package it tells me that it is not installed BUT if I try to install it it says its already installed. Even when I try to force an install with --replacepkgs I still get wierdness with the erase command.

What can I do to fix it so that I can do an install and a uninstall and have it work the way it should?



[root@C S]# rpm -e x.2-0.i386.rpm
error: package x.2-0.i386.rpm is not installed
[root@C S]# rpm -i x.2-0.i386.rpm
package x.2-0 is already installed


[root@C S]# rpm -i --replacepkgs x.2-0.i386.rpm
[root@C S]# rpm -e x.2-0.i386.rpm
error: package x.2-0.i386.rpm is not installed

you don't uninstall a package by the filename, that doesn't make sense when you stop to think about it. you unisntall by the package name which you seem to have replaced with "x" for some reason.

oh. Well, I guess you should change my mebership rank back to

-Al