| Tommy Reynolds 2005-03-16, 8:45 pm |
| On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:45:13 +0000, Mark Healey wrote:
> As root I tried:
> []rpm -e nethack-3.4.3-1.i386.rpm
> and it responded with:
> error: package nethack-3.4.3-1.i386.rpm is not installed
Correct. You gave rpm(1) a filename, not a package name. If you had
used:
# rpm -e nethack
you'ld have removed nethack, assuming it was installed.
> Just for shits and giggles I tried:
> []rpm -Uvh nethack-3.4.3-1.i386.rpm
> and it replied with:
> package nethack-3.4.3-1 is already installed
Yup, you tried to install a package that was already installed. You
install packages using a filename -- nothing magical about the
filename.
> I then did:
> []# rpm -q -a | grep nethack
> and got:
> nethack-3.4.3-1
> What's wrong?
Well, you have nethack installed ... no productive work will ensue ;-)
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