n00b question - removing packages from Fedora Core 4

[Bart Couvreur]

On 11/13/05, Mark Jordan <mark.theexile at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 06:22 -0800, Mark Jordan wrote:
> > > I've had FC4 for a little while now and have decided i cant really use
>
> ...
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> >
> > > Can i also remove all the rpms that nothing is dependent on?
> >
> > Do you really need to ask that?  Of course you can remove something that
> > you're not using, not going to use, and nothing else needs.  If nothing
> > depended on it, what would be the point of requiring its presence?
> >
>
> sorry. what i meant was, is there a command to do it automagically, eg
> yum remove orphaned or somefin?
>
> Mark
>
> --
Use yum remove <packagename> or if you know you want to remove a whole
group of packages like eclipse you could also use yum groupremove
eclipse (the list of groups can be found by yum grouplist)

Read the yum man pages to find more info on the group commands

Cheers
Bart