RPM -e (was Re: Bring back configurability in expert mode)

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:42:21PM -0400, Benjamin Vander Jagt wrote:
> Speaking of that, I have a question that is inappropriate for this
> list.  How come I have never gotten rpm -e to uninstall a package?  it
> always says, "Package not installed".  This has been the case for me
> since Red Hat 8.0...

I'll give 100 to 1 odds that the problem is that you're giving it filenames
(foo-1.1-1.rpm) instead of package names (foo-1.1-1 or just foo).
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