n00b question - removing packages from Fedora Core 4

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:25:22PM +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote:
> if you want to do it via command line, because its cooler, use this
> 
> 
> $rpm -qa | grep packagehere
> 
> this will list all the packages containing "packagehere"    but, be a 
> little generic with package here, and watch for caps.  it is sensitive.  it 
> took me a long time to unintsall maya because i kept searching for maya and 
> not Maya.  but, most of it is lowercase.
> 
> then to remove the package
> 
> $rpm -e packagehere
> 
> you enter in the "packagehere" just as rpm -qa displayed it, dont put rpm 
> at the end.
> 
> thanks,
> martin
> 
> 
> >From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >Subject: Re: n00b question - removing packages from Fedora Core 4
> >Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 01:20:19 +1030
> >
> >On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 06:22 -0800, 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?
> >
> >There's an add/remove applications tool in the menu.
> >You can "erase" RPMs manually, if you know which ones to remove.
> >You can use YUM to remove packages.
> >Take your pick.
> >
> >> Can i also remove all the rpms that nothing is dependent on?
> >
> >Do you really need to ask that?  Of course you can remove something that
> >you're not using, not going to use, and nothing else needs.  If nothing
> >depended on it, what would be the point of requiring its presence?
> >
Using the: yum remove facility may be more helpful than rpm -e since
yum remove removes the rpm and its dependencies.
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