Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:13:14AM -0400, William Hooper wrote: > >> Did you rerun your rpm query to see if any of openoffice.org is >> installed? rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org > > fyi: rpm -qa 'openoffice.org*' I imagine that this will also work: rpm -qa openoffice.org\* But my fingers are used to typing the grep. Grep is also useful for catching packages that might be related but don't start with the query. For example: rpm -qa | grep -i mysql Gives more info than rpm -qa mysql\* -- William Hooper