Troubleshooting
When I query for a package I know I installed, RPM says it isn't installed.
A few possible solutions to this exist. First, make sure you are querying based on the package name, not the package's filename. For example, if you have installed coas-1.1-12.i386.rpm, you should query it with the following:
$ rpm -q coas
If you try typing rpm -q coas-1.1-12.i386.rpm, it won't find that, because that is the name of a file, not a package.
Another possibility is that you have forgotten the name of the package. For example, /usr/bin/crontab is in a package called vixie-cron, not cron as you might expect. It also can be easy to capitalize incorrectly. A couple of ways to figure out the proper name for a package are available. First, you ...
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