[H-GEN] SMALL RPM PROBLEM

[Robert Kearey]

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Rick Phillips wrote:

>>Please explain - what architecture? What did you install?

> I installed the "athlon" RPM instead of the i686/kernel 2.4.19-14 RPM

Ah, that'll slow things down a little, but shouldn't do anything dramatic.

>>rpm -e foo.i386.rpm
>>error: package foo.i386.rpm is not installed

> Yep, that's the message

>>rpm -e foo is what you want.

> So, what you are saying is I leave the architecture tag and "RPM" off the
> command. [1]

Precisely. The package name is not the same thing as the package 
filename, and it does catch people out on occasion.

> Rick

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