On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:13, Hans Troost wrote: > Dear all, > > Since about a month a changed from Bill's OS's to Fedora, so I'm relatively > new, but in the mean time learned a lot, thanks to this community. > > Fedora version: FC2 2.6.5-1.358smp I would update it to the latest FC2 2.6.8-1 as this fixes some problems the earlier kernal. > > So now with some experience I'm ready to make some personal choices about the > program I will use in the future. So which one for mailing, one specific > web-browser etc. etc. > Since I'm working in the IT (but new to UNIX), I always try to keep my > computers as clean as possible, so I now want to remove the software I do not > longer use. > > Is there a general way to "uninstall" software and are there pitfalls I have > to avoid (and how). > > Examples: I want to remove the whole XIMIAN stuff, I am happy with KMAIL, I > want to remove the whole MOZILLA-suite and replace it by a web-browser-only > program like Firefox and I want to remove a lot of other software I just > installed to try and no longer use. > > My only installation experience up to now is with YUM (used update, install > and search) and RPM -IVH. Not further experience nor in general nor with > these programs. > > -- > With kind regards, > > Hans Troost > e-mail: fedora + chr(64) + troost.tweakdsl.nl Have a look at the manual for rpm, it is very powerful eg rpm -e removes a package, rpm -qa| grep mail lists all the packages containing the word mail Rob
