[ale] emacs?

[Matthew Brown]

Thanks, all!

-----Original Message-----
 From: Jim Kinney <jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu>
To: Matthew Brown <matthew.brown at cordata.net>
Cc: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] emacs?


>See below for solution.
>
>James Kinney M.S.Physics jkinney at emory.edu
>Educational Technology Specialist 404-727-4734
>Department of Physics Emory University http://teller.physics.emory.edu
>
>On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Matthew Brown wrote:
>
>> [root at ddd emacs]# rpm -e emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm 
>> package emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm is not installed
>
>There is no package installed with the name ending in .i386.rpm
>
>> [root at ddd emacs]# rpm -qa | grep -i emacs
>> emacs-20.3-3
>> emacs-nox-20.3-3
>> emacs-el-20.3-3
>> [root at ddd emacs]# rpm --verify emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm 
>> package emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm is not installed
>
>Same problem as above.
>
>> [root at ddd emacs]# rpm -ql emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm 
>> package emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm is not installed
>
>rpm -e emacs-el-20.3-3
>rpm -e emacs-nox-20.3-3
>rpm -e emacs-20.3-3
>
>This will remove all three packages.
>
>rpm -ivh emacs-20.3-3.i386.rpm
>
>This will install emacs-20.3-3
>
>It would be nice if rpm was just a little smarter and would drop the
>.i386.rpm extension when doing any real work.