Manage software with yum

[Joao Paulo Pires]

Thank you for your support,
In fact I have already searched this issues at man pages. But information seems to me a hard to find. Did I loose something?
Thanks again. Joao Paulo Pires

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:41:13 +0000 
From: Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> 
Subject: Re: Manage software with yum 
To: 198mdk at oninet.pt, For users of Fedora Core releases 
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Joao Paulo Pires wrote: 

> Manage software with yum - I am end user (home user). I already 
> installed some stuff like: Xine, Xmms, Mplayer, Skype, NVU, aMule and 
> others. Some with yum commands, other directly from repositories with 
> the problem of dependencies. How can I delete some unnecessary software? 
> I mean really eliminate. Each time I try with yum I am not well succeed. 

You can use yum remove, but it seems a bit dangerous. It sometimes 
seems to suggest to remove dependent packages that are actually still 
wanted. 

Best way, for example to delete a package skype, is to use 

rpm -e skype 

Big advantage of RPM is that yum (or apt-get or smart or whatever) is 
built on top of RPM in a clean way, you can always come in at that level 
and manage things. 

rpm -qa --last | tac 

might be useful to see what you installed recently to get ideas for what 
you don't want any more. 

-Andy
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