General proc. for uninstalling software?

[Robert Slade]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:13, Hans Troost wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Since about a month a changed from Bill's OS's to Fedora, so I'm relatively 
> new, but in the mean time learned a lot, thanks to this community.
> 
> Fedora version: FC2 2.6.5-1.358smp

I would update it to the latest FC2 2.6.8-1 as this fixes some problems
the earlier kernal.
> 
> So now with some experience I'm ready to make some personal choices about the 
> program I will use in the future. So which one for mailing, one specific 
> web-browser etc. etc.
> Since I'm working in the IT (but new to UNIX), I always try to keep my 
> computers as clean as possible, so I now want to remove the software I do not 
> longer use.
> 
> Is there a general way to "uninstall" software and are there pitfalls I have 
> to avoid (and how).
> 
> Examples: I want to remove the whole XIMIAN stuff, I am happy with KMAIL, I 
> want to remove the whole MOZILLA-suite and replace it by a web-browser-only 
> program like Firefox and I want to remove a lot of other software I just 
> installed to try and no longer use.
> 
> My only installation experience up to now is with YUM (used update, install 
> and search) and RPM -IVH. Not further experience nor in general nor with 
> these programs.
> 
> -- 
> With kind regards,
> 
> Hans Troost
> e-mail: fedora + chr(64) + troost.tweakdsl.nl

Have a look at the manual for rpm, it is very powerful eg rpm -e removes
a package, rpm -qa| grep mail lists all the packages containing the word
mail

Rob