how to uninstall all kde* pkgs

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4 total messages Started by Dieu Phan Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:06

#71

Author: Dieu Phan
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:06

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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
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Re: how to uninstall all kde* pkgs

#72

Author: Bill Unruh
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:34

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"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

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?

Re: how to uninstall all kde* pkgs

#73

Author: scottf
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?

Re: how to uninstall all kde* pkgs

#74

Author: mjt
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:53

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Dieu Phan wrote:

> 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

hmmmm. did you download those? otherwise, red hat doesnt put the
rpm files on the HD, but are on the CD's. just use the red hat
software installer utility to remove kde.

ps - i dont see the need in cross-posting to three groups.

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