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Old 09-01-2005, 04:47 AM   #1 (permalink)
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i am working on fedora core2..am facing a wierd problem with the rpm command...i installed a package on the system n then wanted to uninstall it....for that instead of using rpm again i deleted all the files from the system ...then i downloaded the package again n tried installing with rpm but got a message saying its already installed.then i tried uninstalling with rpm n its saying it is not installed on the system...now i dont know if it is installed or not...pleeeeeez help
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Old 09-01-2005, 09:59 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Well if you installed with RPM you should remove with RPM. The install data get's stored in a conf file somewhere.

Try typing in
Code:
rpm -e filename

But there's a good chance this wont wont, just because of the way RPM works, try YUM instead.

Code:
yum remove packagename
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