Re: can't remove eclipses.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 3/18/21 10:13 AM, home user wrote:
> A long time ago, almost certainly using dnf or yum, I installed 
> "Eclipse" and something that starts with "Eclipse C/C++".
> When I try to remove Eclipse, I get:
>
> -bash.2[~]: dnf remove Eclipse
> No match for argument: Eclipse

Package names are case-sensitive.
> When I try "properties" to get the full name of what starts with 
> "Eclipse C/C++", I get "Sorry! There are no details for that appliation.".
>
> How do I remove these applications that I never use?

"rpm -qa | grep eclipse" should show you most of them.
Run "dnf group remove eclipse" first to remove the group and most of the 
packages.
You might need to run "dnf remove '*eclipse*' " after to remove some 
more.  I seem to have a bunch of eclipse packages that aren't part of 
the group.