n00b question - removing packages from Fedora Core 4

Bill Perkins perk at iag.net
Sat Nov 12 14:55:14 UTC 2005


Mark Jordan wrote:
> I've had FC4 for a little while now and have decided i cant really use
> stuff like eclipse and OO.org because theyre just too big for my
> little system. How can I go about removing rpms to free up disk space?
> Can i also remove all the rpms that nothing is dependent on?
> 
> Mark
> 
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You could try:
  yum erase eclipse

Also, check out the man page for yum:
  man yum

 From what I've gathered (and experienced here), yum is the package 
manager to use with Fedora.

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