Trouble Removing RPM's

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Mar 4 05:03:30 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:49:27 -0500,
  Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> max bianco wrote:
> >
> It's not important as to why I want to remove, I understand how 
> important it is going to be to other applications on running.
> Right now I want to know how to remove these two rpm's, If I could just 
> remove one of them then it would be easy to remove the other.
> If you are using a x86_64 , try what I'm suggesting, if you have two 
> identical named rpm's try to remove one and you will see what I 'm 
> getting at, if you are using a i386 box it will be hard for you to 
> understand.

You can specify the architecture when naming the packages if you only
want to remove one. I'd recommend using yum erase rather than rpm -e
since yum will handle removing dependencies for you.




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