At 10:49 AM 6/7/00 +1000, Mark Bayles wrote:
>
>I have been trying to install a RPM package and it seems I have struck
>some type of issue while installing a package.
>
>I am trying to install DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1.i386.rpm
>
>When I try to install it says it's already installed. Then when I try
>to uninstall it says it's not installed.
>I have used the '--force' option on the install but it still reports
>it's not installed.
>I have also used the 'rpm --rebuilddb' hoping it may have been an
>issue with the RPM database, but to no avail.
>
>Here is what I am getting!
>
>[root@storm rpms]# rpm -e DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1.i386.rpm
>error: package DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1.i386.rpm is not installed
>[root@storm rpms]# rpm -i DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1.i386.rpm
>package DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1 is already installed
>
>Anybody got a suggestion(s) for me?
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark
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>
>
Try rpm -e DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1 without the .i386.rpm. RPM lists the
package name
in it's data base, and the package name does not include the arc-type or
the rpm
extension.
Mikkel
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