installed kernel.2.6.12 srpm, how do I remove all of it

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Aug 14 12:30:17 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 07:19 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> That would not mess with the database at all.  However, it would leave
> the package listed as installed.
> 
> Try
> rpm -qa kernel\*
> 
> then identify the source package that was installed in step 1 above and
> do 
>   rpm -e kernel-XXX     
> where kernel-XXX is the source package you installed.

Installing an SRPM does not affect the RPM database at all. That
includes the list of installed packages. There will be no kernel-XXX
package to remove as a result of installing a kernel-XXX.src.rpm.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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