RPM installation succeeds but rpm -q fails

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I'm trying install some packages on a SLES12.2 VM. The command I use is

rpm -ivh --nodeps package_rpm_name

It looks like the rpm is installed since
rpm -qa | grep package_name

returns the package name but when I try to check it using
rpm -q package_name
it returns that the package is not installed.

Besides that uninstalling the package doesn't work since it says the package is not installed and installing it again doesn't work since it says the package is already installed.

I've found some similar issues that were suggested to use rpm --rebuilddb but i've also read that it is not a good practice and the problem will eventually return if we use it.

I don't if it is related to the issue but this happened after I edited the file /etc/fstab and removed the sync.

Thanks ahead.

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rpmsles
This has nothing to do with your /etc/fstab. We need your exact wording, because it sounds like the rpm -q you are putting more information than needed. Just put the name. rpm -qa gives you name, version, arch, etc. - Aaron D. Marasco

1 Answers

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Added “echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches” before installing the rpms and it solved the issue.