remove RPMs with cyclic dependancies.

[jim at rossberry.com (Jim Wildman)]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Matt Hyclak wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:28:08AM +0900, Dave Gutteridge enlightened us:
> > Okay, I tried installing OpenOffice beta, and I think I messed it up, so 
> > I wanted to uninstall it.
> > 
> > I thought wilcards worked, so I tried:
> > [root@localhost program]# rpm -e openoffice*
> > error: package openoffice* is not installed
> > 

They do with yum, which cleans up the dependencies as well.

yum erase openoffice*

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