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In your example you used the file name with full path as the package name for the rpm -e. That was a significant error. <br></font></p>
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<font color="#663366"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 May 2011 11:31, John Van Ostrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@netdirect.ca">john@netdirect.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">----- Original Message -----<br>
> Servername :/software/lintape # rpm -e<br>
> /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/lin_tape-1.50.0-1.x86_64.rpm<br>
> error: package<br>
> /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/lin_tape-1.50.0-1.x86_64.rpm is not<br>
> installed<br>
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</div>try:<br>
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rpm -e lin_tape<br>
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<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I initially tried to run rpm -e but it wouldn't uninstall.<br>And I also tried to run rpm -Uvh and it would say it was installed.<br>There is a daemon that goes along with this module and it's<br>
dependent on lin_tape, so that adds to the complexity. It <br>shows the daemon as installed but won't load because lin_tape<br>wouldn't load.<br><br>Running rpm -e --nodeps worked. I didn't think it did initially<br>
because it didn't return any message... but then when I tried<br>rpm -qs it didn't show the files as it did earlier... so I recompiled<br>the module again and ran rpm -Uvh and this time it worked!<br><br>:) Oksana<br>
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