On 6/6/06, Ed Morrison ed@morrisonnetworks.com wrote:
The yum group commands (with the escapes :-)) worked their magic for me. Thank you to all helped. I do appreciate it.
That's the shotgun blast to get you started. If you want to fine tune things a bit, you can do something like: 'rpm -qa | sort > starting_rpmlist'
and then go through that list removing what you don't need. If you're not sure what a package is, 'rpm -qi packagename' will give you a brief description of it. If you don't need it, use yum to remove it. Caution against a -y with yum when doing this, as occasionally a seemingly innocent package or something you don't know about might and up removing large chunks of things. Yum lets you know what it's taking, so a quick glance over the remove deps is a good idea.