On 8/5/05, Dave Gutteridge dave@tokyocomedy.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure I tried that, but there's always the chance that I messed up the syntax somehow. Next time I'll pay more attention to the steps I take to see if it's possible to remove a package using yum the way you say. I mean, I believe you, but I was pretty sure I was following the proper procedures and it didn't fly for some reason. No way to tell this time round, though.
Yeah, yum just uses the rpmlib bindings and gets access to the rpmdb so packages "manually" installed via rpm should still be available for info, list, remove etc. types of commands inside of yum. I second the recommendations given already to yum list installed | grep -i openoffice
That will give you the _exact_ name of the package so that then you are absolutely sure that you are telling yum to remove the right thing.
Regards, Greg