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ericberry : 19/11/02 01:02 AM : Incident created -   I have mandrake 9.0 running on a P-III 1GHz with 512MB RAM. I had installed mailman, but it was not working (and I might have broken something in the conf files). I decided to re-install mailman to start again, however it tells me that the programme is already installed, but if I go to uninstall it, then it tells me that the programme is _not_ installed... ??? [root@mail eric]# rpm -ivh mailman-2.0.13-2mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package mailman-2.0.13-2mdk is already installed [root@mail eric]# rpm -e mailman-2.0.13-2mdk.i586.rpm error: package mailman-2.0.13-2mdk.i586.rpm is not installed [root@mail eric]#
Linegod_7611 : 19/11/02 01:35 AM : Reply received -   To uninstall an RPM, you don't need to specify the build or package, and in most cases the version. So: # rpm -e mailman-2.0.13-2mdk or # rpm -e mailman would both work. ------- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this incident.
tivolle : 19/11/02 02:53 AM : Reply received -   Or if you have a corrupted rpm database, you can ask rpm to rebuild it from what is installed on your system: #rpm --rebuilddb Regards, Fabien
ericberry : 19/11/02 06:10 AM : Incident closed -   This was exactly the assistance I needed to get past my problem. I couldn't be happier!

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