Dumb question

[Charles Sullivan]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:49:56 -0400
"Michael Willems" <mwillems at ixonet.com> wrote:
  <snip>
>    (rpm were
> problematic: if I install and then later try to remove with -e, rpm says
> "that rpm is not installed").
  <snip>

I hope you are aware that the argument you use to uninstall is
NOT the same as for install.  A typical example might be a 
program named "good_stuff" which is packaged in a rpm file as
 good_stuff-1.2.1.i386.rpm

To install, you could use:
 rpm -Uvh good_stuff-1.2.1.i386.rpm

But to uninstall you would probably use:
 rpm -e good_stuff-1.2.1

Use:
 rpm -qa

to get the names of all installed packages from your rpm
database, so you'll know what names to use for rpm -e.