[CentOS] remove RPMs with cyclic dependancies.

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
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