Lars Hecking wrote: > Marcelo Roccasalva writes: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 13:11, Jerry Geis<geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: >>> When I install some RPMS like openoffice 3 on centos x85_64 >>> is there some command that will leave all the actual files alone (leave >>> them installed) >>> but just remove the RPM name from the RPM database so centos now things >>> the packages are not installed? >> rpm -e --justdb package > > I'd rather > > echo "exclude=openoffice.org-*" >>/etc/yum.conf That does not make CentOS think they are not installed, it just keeps them from being updated :D -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090813/7fd9a621/attachment-0005.sig>