rpm uninstalling

dangerousdave · 02-15-2005, 05:15 PM

OK, I think these shell commands show my problem quite nicely:

[root@localhost internet_tools]# rpm -e dcgui-qt-0.2.20-1.i386.rpm
error: package dcgui-qt-0.2.20-1.i386.rpm is not installed
[root@localhost internet_tools]# rpm -i dcgui-qt-0.2.20-1.i386.rpm
package dcgui-qt-0.2.20-1 is already installed

I want to uninstall this package but as you can see rpm seems to be a bit confused. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, perhaps some arguement I need to pass?

Cheers,

Brian1 · 02-15-2005, 05:30 PM

Try ' rpm -e dcgui-qt-0.2.20-1.i386 ' leave off the .rpm extenesion. You can even get it down to rpm -e dcgui-qt*

Brian1
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reddazz · 02-15-2005, 05:41 PM

"#rpm -e dcgui-qt" should also work just fine.

dangerousdave · 02-15-2005, 06:04 PM

AHAH! Brilliant, exactly what I needed. This forum really is great.