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rpm (on RedHat EL 6) is giving me contradictory information:

[root@aphrodite Desktop]# rpm -e DeepFlow-1.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm 
error: package DeepFlow-1.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm is not installed
[root@aphrodite Desktop]# rpm -i DeepFlow-1.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
package DeepFlow-1.0-1.el6.x86_64 is already installed

How can my package be both installed and not installed? How can I clean up this mess?

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rpm -e expects package name as argument, not the whole rpm file. try this:

 rpm -e DeepFlow


 rpm -e DeepFlow-1.0

depending on whats registered as package name in the rpm db, one of them should work.

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