Re: Noob Question: Uninstalling Firefox rpm's

[Chuck <chuck.carson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Barry Brimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I want to uninstall the default version of firefox, however there appears to
> be 2 of the same rpm's installed and its complaining..
>
> I've been in Solaris land for the last 5 years and my rpm skills aren't the
> most current; how is this achieved?
>
> [root@canthus ~]# rpm -q -a firefox
> firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.centos
> firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.centos

rpm -e firefox --allmatches
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Thanks!

Just curious, why are the 2 identically named packages? Is this just an oversight/bug on CentOS's part or does it serve some purpose?

rhugga
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