Help uninstalling extra languages from Open Office

yonas abraham yonas at erimp3.com
Thu Dec 22 20:38:46 UTC 2005


M. Lewis wrote:

> 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
>
can yumex run on FC2?




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