# Getting Error while Installing Oracle 18c XE RPM package

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**Created:** [March 23, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-installing-oracle-18c-xe-rpm-package/34839 "2021-03-23T17:43:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Praveen\_Kumar\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Praveen\_Kumar\_Singh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Praveen_Kumar_Singh)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-installing-oracle-18c-xe-rpm-package/34839/1 "2021-03-23T17:43:00Z")

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Hello Guys,

I am getting below error while installing Oracle 18c express edition RPM package. So can someone please help.

 ![Error.PNG](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/9/939ea49020b2254ca6e3ddde204261709bc7f03b.png)

Thanks and Regards,  
Praveen Singh

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-installing-oracle-18c-xe-rpm-package/34839/2 "2021-03-23T19:11:56Z")

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Please post text and not some unreadable screenshot

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**Author:** ![Praveen\_Kumar\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@Praveen\_Kumar\_Singh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Praveen_Kumar_Singh)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 4:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-installing-oracle-18c-xe-rpm-package/34839/3 "2021-03-24T04:15:42Z")

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Below is the error I am getting.

**FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “msg”: “Failed to get nevra information from RPM package: /var/oracle-database-xe-18c-1.0-1.x86\_64.rpm”**

Thanks and Regards,  
Praveen Singh

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**Author:** ![Akasurde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/akasurde/32/230_2.png) [@Akasurde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akasurde)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-installing-oracle-18c-xe-rpm-package/34839/4 "2021-03-24T04:34:13Z")

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Hi Praveen,

When a local RPM is passed, yum module tries to retrieve information about name, version, release, and arch from the given RPM. It seems that logic in the module fails to retrieve that for **oracle-database-xe-18c-1.0-1.x86\_64.rpm.** Can you please check if RPM is OK?