RPM already installed, but it not getting unistalled

dhanju · 01-09-2006, 10:35 PM

hai,

we are seeing this problem so long, whats the problem is, if we find any rpm (service or package) not working properly we try to reinstall that one.

but when we try to reinstall its showing that particular rpm is "Already installed", and when we try to remove or uninstall it is showing that particular rpm was "not installed".

to solve this problem what may be the solution.

thanks in advance

T.Hsu · 01-09-2006, 11:11 PM

Only use package's name to uninstall. for example:

you use

Code:

rpm -ivh firefox-1.5-0.fc4.i386.rpm

to install firefox; then use

Code:

rpm -e firefox

to remove it.

Beware that you may encounter dependency problem during uninstall, what distro are you using, maybe better to use a rpm manager like yum. It seems that yum lacks a "reinstall" feature like apt in debian.

and I strongly suggest you to figure out what really cause the problem before reinstalling a package. Reinstallation is the last thing to do.

stress_junkie · 01-10-2006, 04:43 AM

Maybe you could use the upgrade (-U) command instead of remove/install.

rpm -U ...