Permission denied during rpm installation

Deepak Shrestha d88pak at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 05:46:16 UTC 2006


> that exactly what I did before
>
> $ rpm -q kernel-module-ntfs gave me
> package kernel-module-ntfs is not installed
>
> snow I tried
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep -i ntfs which gave me
> kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5-2.1.27-0.rr.10.5
>
> now I tried to remove the package
> $ rpm -e kernel-module-ntfs gave me
> error: package kernel-module-ntfs is not installed
>
> I had to try
> $ rpm -e kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5-2.1.27-0.rr.10.5
>
> to remove it
>
> why is that so? usually it should be suffifcient to provide the name
> like "kernel-module-ntfs" only, why whole pacakge name including
> version?
>

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the package. This time it
doesn't show any error message. I don't have to change the SELinux
setting this time.




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