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Article #73Re: how to uninstall all kde* pkgs
From: scottf
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:30
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:30
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Bill Unruh wrote: > "Dieu Phan" <dphan@iprimus.com.au> writes: > > ]Hi > ]b'coz of not using KDE at all, I made decision to uninstall all kde*.rpm > ]from my rh80. how can i do that in one time (not uninstall pkg by pkg) > ]thanks and merry xmas > > rpm -qa |grep kde>/tmp/kde > or rpm -qa | grep kde | xargs rpm -e Some KDE packages dont have KDE in the name (e.g. kooka, koncd) Changes are the above commands will return errors about things being required so you'll have to do some manually removal. Alternatively .. in RH8.0 you can use the package management tool to 'untick' the KDE option and it will remove the packages in question. > Check /tmp/kde to make sure other unrelated things are not included (eg > a package called backdentist) > rpm -e `cat /tmp/kde` > > But why would you want to do this? While you may not use kde, you may > well want to use some of the kde programs, and are you really that short > of disk space? > > And are you sure that some of the programs you do use do not depend on > kde?
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