Issue
I'm trying to test out an RPM I wrote for Jmeter on CentOS. I followed some guides online and when I do 'sudo rpm --install jmeter.i386.rpm' it says the package is already installed. However when I do 'sudo rpm --erase jmeter.i386.rpm' it says the package is not installed. How can I resolve this issue?
Solution
By using rpm --erase
correctly.
--install
takes an RPM.
--erase
takes a package name.
So rpm -Uvh jmeter.i386.rpm
is paired with rpm -e jmeter
or jmeter.i386
.
As an aside, generally avoid using -i
/--install
in favor of -U
/--upgrade
as it has saner behavior in many cases (and will install a package that isn't already installed just fine). Alternatively, stop using rpm
entirely and just start using yum
instead yum install jmeter.i386.rpm
. (Yes, install
works for localinstall
.)
yum takes RPMs or package names (that are in the configured repositories) for installation and takes package names for removal.
Answered By - Etan Reisner Answer Checked By - Dawn Plyler (WPSolving Volunteer)