Uninstalling rpm's
 

Hello.

I have problems uninstalling rpm's packages.

I installed a package.rpm using this command: rpm -i package.rpm all went smooth.
Now, i'd like to uninstall it. I tried using rpm -e package.rpm , but the answer was: package.rpm is not installed

??

What am i doing wrong?
(btw: i'm using FC2).

10x 4 help!

"What am i doing wrong?"

When you install you use the complete file name in the rpm -i command.
rpm -i package-xx-xx.rpm

When you uninstall you use just the package name in the rpm -e command. Try:
rpm -e package

If you don't know the exact spelling of the package name use:
rpm -qa | sort | less
to get an alphabetical list of your package names.

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rpm -e rpmname dont add the .rpm at the end leave it out.

10x guys!!

Same problem unistalling java
 

I am having a very similar problem. I am trying to unistall the package j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.rpm . The RPM -i command tells me the package is installed. Yet using rpm -e j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586 will not remove it, saying the package is not installed. I have also tried rpm -e --force -nodps j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586. Any other ideas how to remove and rpm that is there but the comptuer thinks is not? I am using FCII, fully updated

Me too, it will not allow me to query or anything, yet when I try to install it after I try to uninstall it, it tells me package is already installed. I know there is a system log that keeps track of all the rpms installed on the system, maybe it needs to reference to that and its getting the wrong location. But I never changed that before and it worked at one time. Anyone know what's going on?

The package name might not be exactly the same as the filename minus the .rpm end. Try to find it in a gui package manager, or try some variation like j2re-1_4_2_04.