rpm is broken - what's up with that

[ssjf]

I would normaly search for help on this problem, but the fact is that I have no idea what keywords to search with.

Here's the deal:

One of my installs with rpm failed - for the sake of making things easy, it was codeweavers wine under MDK 9.0. When it originally installed, it crapped out saying that I should have xmessage - and where to get it. It didn't give me the normal dependency message, because this apperently isn't a dependency problem. So i go off and install the required package off the MDK cd, and come back - the binaries aren't installed, so I try to install, and get the following message:

package codeweavers-wine-20020904-7 is already installed

Okay, fair enough right?

rpm -e codeweavers-wine-20020904-7.i386.rpm returns with:

error: package codeweavers-wine-20020904-7.i386.rpm is not installed

He he. What a contradiction. How the heck do you solve this?

[JohnT]

Try

updatedb -u

also go to MDK pkg manger and take a look.

[mdwatts]

You need to leave off the version and file extension when uninstalling rpm packages.

Try either

rpm -e codeweavers-wine

or

rpm -e codeweavers-wine-20020904-7

The first should work.

[ssjf]

Thanks MD... that did the trick.

Funny... I never thought of myself as so much of a dumbass. Oh well.