[CentOS] Noob Question: Uninstalling Firefox rpm's

Mon Aug 17 05:16:32 UTC 2009
Chuck <chuck.carson at gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:

> > I want to uninstall the default version of firefox, however there appears
> to
> > be 2 of the same rpm's installed and its complaining..
> >
> > I've been in Solaris land for the last 5 years and my rpm skills aren't
> the
> > most current; how is this achieved?
> >
> > [root at canthus ~]# rpm -q -a firefox
> > firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.centos
> > firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.centos
>
> rpm -e firefox --allmatches
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Thanks!

Just curious, why are the 2 identically named packages? Is this just an
oversight/bug on CentOS's part or does it serve some purpose?

rhugga
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