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Re: [ic] rpm -qlp interchan* output for me
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dan B wrote:
> At 03:56 PM 4/4/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Nearly a month ago Jon suggested someone do:
> >rpm -qlp interchange-4.6.4-1.rh7.i386.rpm (edited to be my current version)
> >so the install locations could become familiar.
> >
> >I have tried this including tried with shorter interchange* variations
> >and continue to get the response 'package ... is not installed'
>
> Filename != rpm name. I got confused about that when I was first learning
> Redhat 5.0, too. :-)
>
> Try #rpm -q -a | grep interchange
> That should reveal the real name of the interchange package. (Which will
> probably result in a working rpm -qlp interchange, or rpm -qlp
> interchange-4.6.4).
>
> It's too bad that there isn't really great up-to-date documentation on RPM,
> but you might try rpm.org if you still have questions.
The manpage is pretty good on this topic, actually.
rpm -qlp uninstalled-rpm-file-name.rpm
is for RPM packages in a file (regardless of what's installed on the
system), while
rpm -ql interchange
operates on the Interchange package you already installed on your system
(if any).
Jon
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