On 21/09/2020 21:50, Doug McGarrett wrote:
which was the answer you should have received as you didn't use the correct procedure. you must uninstall the rpm package, not one of the files contained withing the package. you are borking your system. and you just continue to do so.
Alright, how?
Carlos has told you how to identify the PACKAGE NAME given one of the files that were installed. if you read the man page on "rpm" you will see that while it uses PACKAGE FILE for installation it uses PACKAGE NAME for erasure/removal. NAME not FILE The NAMED package is what was in the FILE. That's _package_! Not files, but _package_. For ${DEITY}'s sake, why can't people who aspire to be programmers or administrators of computer system read "Alice in Wonderland" and Alfred Korzybski. "The map is not the territory". The name of the thing is not the thing. The name of a RPM file is not the content, which is a CPIO file and some metadata anyway, and it's only when processed (aka interpreted) do you get the package. The container of the thing, not matter how it is named, is not the thing either. The file is not the process. And the file _name_ certainly isn't. A reference to name of the thing isn't the thing either! the problem is that we use names, labels, references indiscriminately. And it confuses the heck out of neophytes. As this thread is demonstrating. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org