[ale] emacs?

[jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu (Jim Kinney)]

See below for solution.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Matthew Brown wrote:

> [root at ddd emacs]# rpm -e emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm 
> package emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm is not installed

There is no package installed with the name ending in .i386.rpm

> [root at ddd emacs]# rpm -qa | grep -i emacs
> emacs-20.3-3
> emacs-nox-20.3-3
> emacs-el-20.3-3
> [root at ddd emacs]# rpm --verify emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm 
> package emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm is not installed

Same problem as above.

> [root at ddd emacs]# rpm -ql emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm 
> package emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm is not installed

rpm -e emacs-el-20.3-3
rpm -e emacs-nox-20.3-3
rpm -e emacs-20.3-3

This will remove all three packages.

rpm -ivh emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm

This will install emacs-20.3-3

It would be nice if rpm was just a little smarter and would drop the
.i386.rpm extension when doing any real work.