rpm -e is not working

[input]

i want to remove the package lexmark/z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm but it sys that it is not installed.
What else can I do to remove the package.

Thanks

[DBelton]

how you remove it would depend upon how you installed it.

If you install it from the tar.gz file, then it won't be in the rpm database.

If you installed it with rpm or yum, then you can remove it with rpm or yum.

try this to remove it:

su -
(root password)

yum remove z600cups

[input]

lexmark]# yum remove z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
No Packages marked for removal

[leigh123linux]

Run the command given ( you broke the last suggestion by adding .rpm to it).

su
yum remove z600cups\*

[AdamW]

right.

what's going on here is that both rpm and yum commands act on rpm's database of packages that are installed: they don't act on a file. otherwise, you couldn't delete a .rpm file after you'd installed it: you'd have to keep every .rpm file you'd ever installed around somewhere in order to be able to remove them. which would be a bit silly.

so you can't do an rpm removal operation on a file, exactly. that's just...not how the system works. you're removing something that's listed in rpm's database of installed files; which is a package name, not a filename with a .rpm extension.

i'd expect 'yum remove z600cups', 'rpm -e z600cups', 'yum remove z600cups-1.0-1.i386', 'rpm -e z600cups-1.0-1.i386' would all work. but not the commands you tried.