On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:30:24 +0300 "Kumara" <kumara.jayaweera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm a newbie of Linux, for practicing installing rpms and tar.gz files, I > installed a lot of unnecessary programs even asterisk. but many times, I > could not launch many programs after installing or the particular program. > because I don't know how to do it. now... my system is slow and run with lot > of stucks/non-responsive times. I want to practice some more before making a > clean installation again. could somebody tell me to practice some good > commands or run some good programs as a newbie in Linux including > uninstalling programs? > Thank you in advance > Mohan > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list 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. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097
