On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 00:09 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: > Robin Laing wrote: > > > > > I look at this from a different point. After trying it, I hate > > Evolution and I want to remove all traces of that but it is impossible. > > With yum it is. It wants to remove much of your system packages. If you > use rpm directly, it is a much simpler result, evolution is removed. > > [root@HP ~]# rpm -e evolution > [root@HP ~]# rpm -q evolution > package evolution is not installed > I don't see what's so hard about using yum to do this. $ sudo yum remove evolution Password: Loading "changelog" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "presto" plugin Setting up Remove Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package evolution.i386 0:2.10.2-3.fc7 set to be erased --> Processing Dependency: libeshell.so.0 for package: evolution-connector --> Processing Dependency: evolution for package: evolution-remove-duplicates --> Processing Dependency: libeutil.so.0 for package: mail-notification-evolution-plugin --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Running transaction check ---> Package evolution-connector.i386 0:2.10.2-2.fc7 set to be erased ---> Package evolution.i386 0:2.10.2-3.fc7 set to be erased ---> Package evolution-remove-duplicates.i386 0:0.0.2-6.fc7 set to be erased ---> Package mail-notification-evolution-plugin.i386 0:4.0-2.fc7 set to be erased Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Removing: evolution i386 2.10.2-3.fc7 installed 59 M Removing for dependencies: evolution-connector i386 2.10.2-2.fc7 installed 2.3 M evolution-remove-duplicates i386 0.0.2-6.fc7 installed 25 k mail-notification-evolution-plugin i386 4.0-2.fc7 installed 66 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 4 Package(s) Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command Complete! There are a couple of other hangers on, but they can be removed individually, except for evolution-data-server (which is no longer part of Evolution). -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs