Uninstalling progrms?

[Kumara]

Thank you
----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnathan Bailes" <johnathan.bailes at gmail.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: Uninstalling progrms?


> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:05:41 -0800, Richard E Miles
> <r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:30:24 +0300
> > "Kumara" <kumara.jayaweera at damad.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > To uninstall rpm's as root do rpm -e rpm-package name. To unistall from
a
> > tar.gz after you have done a make install, do a make uninstall. That
will work
> > for most tar.gz installs. Some do not have a make uninstall in which
case you
> > must physically remove them using rm command form wherever they
installed.
> >
>
> Another method is to
>
> #yum remove <package_name> ENTER
>
> A graphical front end is also available btw:
>
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/2.0/
>
> Yes, we all know that Fedora needs better package management tools
> that are tied into yum by default.
>
> An install/remove interface that lists more than just CD packages or
> an up2date that uses yum as it backend or a doubleclick to install for
> rpms that handles dependencies through yum completely etc...etc... ad
> nausem.
>
> Yum is still imho the best way to handle package management.  Gyum is
> kind of slow and simple but it works.
>
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