How to uninstall software?

Sat Apr 30 16:55:59 UTC 2005

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:39:45PM -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> I've not had much trouble installing software but now I want to take
> some off and don't know how. It wasn't done with Yum or with the package
> manager so it isn't clear to me how to remove it. I guess there must be
> about as many ways to remove a program as there are to put it on. Anyone
> know of something that works for everything or without instructions
> should I just try different things until one works? 

It'll be different for everything. This is one reason it's very, very nice
to use RPM (via yum when possible) for everything on your system. A little
up-front complication in some cases makes management much easier later.

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