Fedora Users — Re: Safe removal of pulseaudio

Brian Chadwick wrote:

Karl Larsen wrote:
My F8 had a lot of rpm's with libs and binary files that make up aworking system. I find it to my advantage to remove these files. Iused a method I thought was going to be automatic using "yum". I used"yum remove pulseaudio*" and I got a long list of things beingdeleted. I didn't pay much attention but discovered my entire systemwas killed!
When I installed F8 and after getting it set up I put the F8 DVDback into the computer and looked at all the rpm's loaded and went tothose with pulseaudio in the name. There were about 5 and it wassimple to erase them if you picked the right ones first. I used no"rpm -e --nodep" and they all are gone. I then had a total "update"and I looked at /var/log/yum.log and see no more pulseaudio updates.This may have been because I erased the original ones.
Karl
if you dont want to use pulseaudio regress to Fedora 7. its thatsimple instead of trying to to do inexperienced surgery on F8

I am not a Power User of Fedora, but I still have a percentage ofthe mental ability from my younger years where I made several MillionDollars. The way I did this is clear. I wanted Skype to work but it wasstill effected by pulseaudio!

I then went back to an old message from Nigel of 2007-12-23 andfound out what he took out. He used "yum remove filename" but I used#rpm -i filename to the same effect. Skype now works like it should.


Karl