From: Dan Nelson
Date: August 12 2002 1:18am
Subject: Re: Re-installing MySQL
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In the last episode (Aug 12), Ville Mattila said:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I'd need to re-install MySQL server on my RH 7.3 box. As I installed the
> server from RPMs, I tried to update MySQL with rpm and -Uvh options. Results
> were like this:
> 
> [root@pilotmedia root]# rpm -Uvh MySQL-3.23.51-1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
> package MySQL-3.23.51-1 is already installed
> 
> OK Well, I decided to uninstall the installed package... but...
> 
> [root@pilotmedia root]# rpm -e  MySQL-3.23.51-1.i386.rpm
> error: package MySQL-3.23.51-1.i386.rpm is not installed

The package name does not include ".rpm".

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped