I can't remove an rpm that i installed

[blurredvision]

I am using Red Hat 9, kernel 2.4.20-8. I have installed the nVidia nforce drivers from nvidia's webiste, but they have two different versions: a Red Hat 9.0, and a Red Hat 9.0 kernel upgrade.

I installed the kernal upgrade rpm by using the following line in the terminal:

rpm -i NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.rpm

This installed the rpm fine with no errors. I rebooted, went into Internet Configuration Wizard, and it showed a network device of nvnet. Yay! I thought it worked. But after I set up a few things, it said something to the effect that it couldn't configre the card or something. I can't remember!

So I decided the smart thing to do was take it out, and try to reconfigure again. But now nvnet has disappeared!!

I tried uninstalling the rpm by using "rpm -e", but it now says it can't find it. I've tried 20 times, so I know I'm typing it in right. I try to uninstall by going to the directory it's in, it's the same one I installed it from. Should I be in another directory to uninstall?

And when I tried to just install the regular drivers, not the updated kernel ones, it tells me the updated ones are already installed.

HELP!!!

[blurredvision]

I think I figured out what I was doing wrong. When I was trying to uninstall it, I was adding .rpm to the end of it, which infact shouldn't have been added.

Needless to say it worked, but was this the reason or did I get lucky?

[plattypus1]

Yes, that's the reason.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by blurredvision
I think I figured out what I was doing wrong. When I was trying to uninstall it, I was adding .rpm to the end of it, which infact shouldn't have been added.

Needless to say it worked, but was this the reason or did I get lucky?

That is correct as you only use the package name and not the version or file extension when uninstalling a rpm package.

rpm -e NVIDIA_nforce

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