yum & rpm confusion

[pmagnuso]

I have managed to confuse yum & rpm. I installed a package using one of the tools, and then ran a bundled script which did an uninstall.

Now both yum and rpm, think the package is installed. when I do a uninstall, both think the package is not installed.

What magic file can I edit to make the packages uninstalled, so that I can do a install?

on install rpm reports:

rpm -i VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.i386.rpm
package VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124 is already installed

on erase rpm reports:

rpm -e VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.i386.rpm
error: package VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.i386.rpm is not installed

Thanks,

[strikeforce]

you can force the installation. using rpm --force --install that should do it. I don't believe and obviously I stand to be correct but --force doesn't work on uninstall or erase.

[vishnumrao]

rpm -e VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.i386 should suffice. while using rpm -e dont add the .rpm at the end. that should do. (I think I am right. I am not at my linux machine right now.)Try it.

[pmagnuso]

Thanks for the reponses.

After running rpm --force -i (and a couple of other variants), there is no error on the installation.

however rpm -e still reports that the package is not installed.

Still looking for the file I can edit to make rpm think there was no installation.

Thanks for the help,

[pmagnuso]

I found the magic sequence for the uninstall. Instead of using the .rpm file it was:

rpm -e VMwareWorkstation

Don't know why the .rpm version did not work.

Thanks for the help,