[vox-tech] rpm that refuses to go away

[Jonathan Stickel]

This is a general annoyance of the rpm system.  To install an rpm, you 
include  the entire filename.  To uninstall, you include just the 
program name, with no version number/name.  It is not always clear what 
the core name is supposed to be...

I'm guessing for your case, you just need to use "hsfmodem".  First try 
to query the package:

rpm -q hsfmodem

If it tells you it exists, then try:

rpm -e hsfmodem

Jonathan


David Margolis wrote:
> I'm helping a guy on a redhat 9 system get his modem working.  It's one of
> those nasty winmodems, but is supposed to be well supported by the
> hfsmodem driver.
> 
> He tried to install (and I'm making up the exact file name):
> hsfmodem-1.2.3-i686.rpm
> 
> This didn't work, and I think it's because he was supposed to install
> hsfmodem-1.2.3-athlon.rpm (the help files say the achitecture is important
> for getting this particular driver running).
> 
> Anyway, I tried to run: rpm -e hsfmodem-1.2.3
> and I get something like: sorry, hsfmodem-1.2.3 is not installed
> 
> So I go: rpm -ivh (or -Uvh) hsfmodem-1.2.3-athlon.rpm
> and I get: hsfmodem-1.2.3 interfers with hsfmodem-1.2.3
> 
> The question is, how do I fool rpm into believing one package is not there
> so I can install the other if it appears there seems to be something stuck
> in rpm's database (or whatever system it uses to keep track of installed
> packages)?
> 
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> Dave Margolis
> 
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