On Friday 05 August 2005 12.09, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > >yum remove PACKAGE > > But will this work when the original isntall was done with RPMs and not > YUM? I attempted to install OpenOffice.org Beta via YUM, but couldn't find > it in a repository. So I had to isntall it from the RPMs offered on the > OpenOffice.org site. Then, when I tried to uninstall it, I tried: > # yum remove openoffice* > ... and: > # yum remove openoffice > ... but it didn't work. > If I have something installed without YUM, how do I use YUM to uninstall > it? I don't think yum should have any problems removing packages even if they were manually installed with the rpm-command. "yum remove openoffice" should work if the package was indeed called openoffice (you can find out with "rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice"). /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050805/8fbdb343/attachment.bin