Johnny Hughes wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > <snip> > >> Probably because "rpm -e {package name}" and "yum remove {package >> name}" does different things. >> >> I'd suggest run yum remove openoffice.org-core && yum clean all >> > > They don't really do different things to the rpm database. > > yum erase/remove will ALSO solve for and remove dependencies (other > things that need to be removed that depend on the packages you want to > remove). > > HOWEVER ... yum is nothing more than a depsolver and front end that > uses rpm to do it's actions, so it is NOT different that rpm -e (it > uses rpm -e) when removing files. > > Oh, I thought yum had a different cache / database of what is installed? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff