diff --git a/plugins/modules/rhel_rpm_ostree.py b/plugins/modules/rhel_rpm_ostree.py
index 0976e02..bc68161 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/rhel_rpm_ostree.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/rhel_rpm_ostree.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
 
 
 def locally_installed(module, pkgname):
-    (rc, out, err) = module.run_command('{0} -q {1}'.format(module.get_bin_path("rpm"), pkgname).split())
+    (rc, _, _) = module.run_command('{0} -q --whatprovides {1}'.format(module.get_bin_path("rpm"), pkgname).split())
     return (rc == 0)
 
 
@@ -97,9 +97,9 @@ def rpm_ostree_transaction(module):
         module.exit_json(msg="No changes made.")
     else:
         if module.params['state'] in ['present', 'installed', 'latest']:
-            module.fail_json(msg="The following packages are absent in the currently booted rpm-ostree commit: %s" ' '.join(pkgs))
+            module.fail_json(msg="The following packages are absent in the currently booted rpm-ostree commit: {}".format(' '.join(pkgs)))
         else:
-            module.fail_json(msg="The following packages are present in the currently booted rpm-ostree commit: %s" ' '.join(pkgs))
+            module.fail_json(msg="The following packages are present in the currently booted rpm-ostree commit: {}".format(' '.join(pkgs)))
 
 
 def main():