RPM oddness with FC2: RESOLVED

[Mike McCarty]

Mike McCarty wrote:

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> I decided to uninstall. But then I hit some problems. Here is
> the current behavior of rpm, which I find confusing.
>
> # rpm -e newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
> error: package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm is not installed
> # rpm -i newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
>        package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1 is already installed
> # rpm -e newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
> error: package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm is not installed

Ah, but then I read a message by Bruce Stanley which jogged my
memory. One installs packages from files, but one removes packages.

So I did:

# rpm -ev binutils-68hc1x-2.15-3.0.1.i586
# rpm -ev gcc-68hc1x-3.3.5-3.0.1.i586
# rpm -ev gdb-68hc1x-6.2-3.0.1.i586
# rpm -ev newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586
# ls /usr/bin/m6811*
ls: /usr/bin/m6811*: No such file or directory

Which indicates that the files are now gone.

Thanks for this wonderful group, and especially Bruce Stanley.

Mike

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