[CentOS] remove RPMs with cyclic dependancies.

Peter Kjellström cap at nsc.liu.se
Fri Aug 5 10:14:49 UTC 2005


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.sig>


More information about the CentOS mailing list