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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >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. -- ======================================================================= Be different: conform. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
