Help uninstalling extra languages from Open Office

[M. Lewis]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> yonas abraham wrote:
> 
>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>> I have Open Office installed on my machine FC2. At the time I did
>>> the install, either I missed the ability to specify what to install
>>> or it wasn't presented. In either case, I wound up with a nearly
>>> 1GB directory tree. I would like to shrink this if possible.
>>> In particular, I don't speak or use most of the languages in the
>>> language pack. I might find Spanish and German useful, but not
>>> any of the rest. I've used man, info, and Google, but haven't had
>>> any success at finding out how to *remove* the language pack,
>>> or portions thereof. Reading the OO FAQ hasn't helped, either.
>>>
>>> Would anyone direct me where to do a more successful search for this
>>> information, please?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> try
>>
>> yum remove openoffice-i18n
>>
> 
> $ yum provides openoffice-i18n
> ...
> Looking in available packages for a providing package
> No packages found
> Looking in installed packages for a providing package
> No packages found
> 
> Thanks for the reply, but this doesn't seem to be it.
> 
> But I was able to find
> 
> $ yum provdies "openoffice*"
> 
> to give some stuff for openoffice.org-i18n, so perhaps that's it.
> 
> Even better is, how would I find out which package to remove?
> I don't want to have to bother the list just to find out such
> information.
> 
> Mike


Possibly much easier with yumex. Just check the language packs you don't 
want, then click remove.

HTH,
Mike

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