Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1156 mails)

[d.harris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Daniel Harris)]

Dear SuSE'rs,
Having installed SuSE 5.1 on my machine I decided rather than being
constantly helped by YaST all the time I would use rpm from the command
line to install an rpm that I had downloaded from the net.
This was an irc program...Hence to say I installed it and ran it ok. But
hated it.
Ok, so I read up on how to uninstall an rpm, (rpm -e <package_name>) but
to no avail. "<package_name> is not installed"
Even tried rebuilding the rpm database, (rpm --rebuilddb)
And again tried to uninstall...grrr! Didn't work.
So I thought I would try installing again...Then got a very sarky
message saying "<package_name> package is already installed"
I don't know if this is me or SuSE...But having heard great things about
SuSE...I am starting to go off RPM's from this experience!

Please could someone set me straight...

- A Linux User -


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