[PLUG] rpm

[Kyle Accardi]

mikeraz at patch.com wrote:

> Anyway, the reason that this is a problem is that when I try to do:
> 
> 	lynx -source install.opennms.org | sh
> 
> to install openNMS (which uses some sort of apt-get rpm installer) it
> bombs because of the listed multiple versions of vnc-doc.
> 
> It would be nice to let opennms install itself.  Looks like I'll need
> to fall back to the manual method.  
> 
> More importantly, being able to use the apt-like tool would be a
> GoodThing(tm).


Are you saying you tried the previous recommendation of omitting the 
version info and it still didn't work?

ie.
# rpm -e vnc-doc

really should work.

I get burned on this from time-to-time.  It'd be nice if rpm recognized the 
entire name in these operations.

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Kyle Accardi