Thank you for your support,
In fact I have already searched this issues at man pages. But information seems to me a hard to find. Did I loose something?
Thanks again. Joao Paulo Pires
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:41:13 +0000
From: Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Manage software with yum
To: 198mdk@xxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases
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Joao Paulo Pires wrote:
> Manage software with yum - I am end user (home user). I already
> installed some stuff like: Xine, Xmms, Mplayer, Skype, NVU, aMule and
> others. Some with yum commands, other directly from repositories with
> the problem of dependencies. How can I delete some unnecessary software?
> I mean really eliminate. Each time I try with yum I am not well succeed.
You can use yum remove, but it seems a bit dangerous. It sometimes
seems to suggest to remove dependent packages that are actually still
wanted.
Best way, for example to delete a package skype, is to use
rpm -e skype
Big advantage of RPM is that yum (or apt-get or smart or whatever) is
built on top of RPM in a clean way, you can always come in at that level
and manage things.
rpm -qa --last | tac
might be useful to see what you installed recently to get ideas for what
you don't want any more.
-Andy
