rpm is installed / rpm is not installed issue

Question

I've run into a bit of an issue with rpm on an Oracle Linux 6.5 box.

I installed an RPM, and it appears to have installed successfully. However, now I am trying to remove it, but rpm says it's already installed. I am trying to uninstall it by package name, not the full *.rpm name. Ex:

[root@server06 ~]# rpm -ivh package-10.0.0B116-02202013-x64.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        package custom-linux-9026-10.0.0-BUILD116.noarch is already installed

[root@server06 ~]# rpm -ql package-10.0.0B116-02202013-x64.rpm
package package-10.0.0B116-02202013-x64.rpm is not installed

[root@server06 ~]# rpm -q package-10.0.0B116
package package-10.0.0B116 is not installed

[root@server06 ~]# rpm -e package-10.0.0B116
error: package package-10.0.0B116 is not installed

So the system won't let me install it again because it thinks it's already there, but won't let me uninstall it because it thinks it's not there.

rpm -qa |grep -i package returns nothing.

rpm --rebuilddb doesn't help either.

Answer 1

Notice the line:

package custom-linux-9026-10.0.0-BUILD116.noarch is already installed

So despite the filename of package-10.0.0B116-02202013-x64.rpm the package (in rpm header) is likely named custom-linux-9026-10.0.0-BUILD116. So you must call

rpm -e custom-linux-9026-10.0.0-BUILD116

Answer 2

If you still have the original rpm file, extract the package name from it with -qp and the filename, eg

$ rpm -qp ~/myrpm-1.0-05077.i586.rpm
myrpm-1.0-05077.i586

and try using that in the rpm erase, as the filename might not match the package name.

Answer 3

rpm -aq | grep -i package.rpm if still not getting the output, then run updatedb command and try again

i will if ignore case sensitive

If you want to remove the rpm please give the full package name.

rpm -e package-10.0.0B116-02202013-x64.rpm

Answer 4

The real problem seems to be that the package you are trying to remove wasn't actually installed:

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        package custom-linux-9026-10.0.0-BUILD116.noarch is already installed

And the package name seems to be custom-linux-9026-10.0.0-BUILD116.noarch.