[AG-TECH] the latest pain....and a rant.

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Tue May 13 03:36:17 CDT 2003


On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Todd Needham wrote:

> Have you considered switching from .rpm to .msi files? ;)

hoho.  Good try.  Maybe just using rpm correctly would solve this problem.  In
removing an rpm, it doesn't expect the syntax you're using.

rpm -ivh foo.rpm
rpm -e foo

Levering apt-get into the equation makes things even silkier (windows update
eat your heart out).

jh

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