I succeeded to upgrade NS-commom from RedHat 6.1 CD but couldn't upgrade Netscape Communicator. rpm tells me that netscape-common-4.61-12.i386.rpm is not installed - so now I cant't either uninstall or reinstall NS common or upgrade Netscape Communicator. [root@redhat /root]# rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/netscape-common-4.61-12.i386.rpm package netscape-common-4.61-12 is already installed error: /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/netscape-common-4.61-12.i386.rpm cannot be installed [root@redhat /root]# rpm -q /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/netscape-common-4.61-12.i386.rpm package /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/netscape-common-4.61-12.i386.rpm is not installed [root@redhat /root]# rpm -e /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/netscape-common-4.61-12.i386.rpm package /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/netscape-common-4.61-12.i386.rpm is not installed
To query or remove packages, you use the package name, not the file name. For example: rpm -q netscape-common rpm -e netscape-common
Uninstalling and reinstalling netscape-common didn't solve the problem. The solution is upgrade netscape-communicator with --nodeps opition: rpm -U --nodeps /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/netscape-communicator-4.61-12.i386.rpm