-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:21:22 +0100, A. S. Budden wrote:
> Thus spake Earl Eiland: > > I installed a program using rpm. It's not running properly, so now want > > to remove it. When I execute rpm -e filename, I get the error message > > 'filename not installed'. How do I uninstall? > > Lose the version number -- e.g. No, the version number is not the reason why his attempts have failed. rpm expects a package name, not a file name. But you can include version-release. > $ rpm -qa | grep emacs > emacs-21.2-33 > $ rpm -e emacs "rpm -e emacs-21.2-33" would have worked, too. But "rpm -e emacs-21.2-33.i386.rpm" would have been wrong. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/VNc+0iMVcrivHFQRAhLRAJsEaW5ZeUR99PCkkjW06RHENoBFZACfQy3C qyy6gicZUkRFX2JZtFaQmX8= =2AU8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
