Permission denied during rpm installation

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Jul 31 07:39:29 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 13:46 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> > 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.

Good; it was probably a leftover temp file from a crashed "depmod" run
that caused the problem then.

Paul.





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