Can't add or remove packages in FC4

[BRUCE STANLEY]

--- William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if this is related or not but I had
> > a weird problem with rpm last night.
> 
> Not at all related.
> 
> > Went to remove the pacakage via
> > rpm -ev gnuchess-*
> >
> > it told me that the package was not installed.
> 
> If I had to guess I would say that you had the files
> in you current
> directory, so when bash expanded the wildcard you
> were feeding rpm the
> file name instead of the package name.
> 
> -- 

Nice Guess,  but I only had the single gnuchess-*.rpm
file in a test directory not related to where the
rpm package was placing the files.