Re: rpm -e question

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Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Sent: Aug 26, 2010 1:42 PM
>To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: rpm -e question
>
>On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:48 -0700, JD wrote:
>> Running rpm -e <pkgname>
>> does not delete the binaries and other files that
>> were installed by the package; and I see no option
>> to rpm in the man page to remove the package's files.
>> So far I have had to remove them manually after I
>> remove the package. But that is a hit and miss operaton
>> because I cannot always remember to do
>> 
>> rpm -ql --provides <pkgname>
>> 
>How about:
>yum erase <pkgname>
[ka-snip]

That only works if if the package was installed using yum or yum history was manually updated to include the package.

A good example of this NOT happening is if you use the RPMFusion packages per their instructions.

Thus using rpm -e should not affect yum in this case.

However, using rpm -q or rpm -ql followed by rpm -e to remove a package installed by yum will leave a dangling entry in yum history.

James McKenzie

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