Uninstall

[David Smith]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 16:20, Thomas MacLean wrote:
> How do I uninstall a program in fedora core1 ?
>       I have attempted to install pgp and the program asked for
> disk three I inserted it in my dvd player and it looked in my cd rom
> player but not in the dvd player then it said and error was found and
> aborting the install !
>           so it closed I then tried to reinstall it but it told me it 
> was already
>  installed !!!!!!
>              
>             I have both win 98 and linux installed on my computer
>    and would like to switch to linux BUT I have to learn a lot !
>               Not that windows is better but that if I want to uninstall
>     I just go to setting and add or remove software and it is MOSTLY :-) 
> gone
>          and i can installover again
>             
> 
> -- 
>   L A T E R
>      T.A.M.
>   thomasmac at accesswave.ca
> 
>     Thomas A. MacLean 

The easiest way is to open a terminal window. su in as root. Then type
rpm -qa |grep <package name / part of package name> this will display
the exact package name then to actually uninstall rpm -e <package name>.
Or if you are using yum you can do yum remove <package name>.
David
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