Colm McCartan <colmm(at)owl(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> I also wrote to the redhat rpm newsgroup about a problem that I and
> several colleagues have frequently seen with rpm - it will happily
> install an RPM and then report it uninstalled.
Not having seen that, I'm pretty certain that's user error.
You can't do "rpm -q foo-1.1-1.i386.rpm", the packagename is (usually,
find out for sure by using "rpm -qip: on the file) "foo".
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