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I tried to install an RPM package and the install process failed. It looks like the program needs signing the Kernel Modules or something. Now I'm stuck in a weird state where rpm says the package is installed, but when I try to uninstall it, it claims it's not installed.

sudo rpm -i mypackage.rpm
    package mypackage is already installed

sudo rpm -e mypackage.rpm
error: package mypackage is not installed

How can I resolve the install/uninstall state? I'd like to remove the package.

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  • I've tried to keep the question as generic as possible, the rpm package in question is VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.12_139181_fedora32-1.x86_64.rpm
    – Kelly Bang
    Sep 1, 2020 at 18:00
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    Try uninstalling the package using sudo rpm -e VirtualBox
    – fpmurphy
    Sep 1, 2020 at 19:44

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rpm -e requires a package name, not a filename.

And anyway you should use dnf to install and remove packages, for consistency. It should be quite a rare event if you have to use rpm itself.

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other way of doing it is to use

rpm -qa | grep package_name

It will give you full package name and then you can use

rpm -e package_name

to delete it.

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