[Techtalk] Uninstalling programs in Linux

[Marian Routh]

Hi - Here's a Windows-centric question for you:  How do I uninstall a 
program that I don't want any more?  I'd like to get rid of SOT office, 
which I didn't install using SuSE's Yast2 updater.  I just d/led the 
proggie and ran the rpm as root.

I logged in as root and typed rpm -e /home/me/name-of-rpm-package and  
the console told me the package was not installed!  Which it is.  So I 
tried just calling it by its name, SOT_Office.  Same response.  I 
looked in SOT's readme, and there's nothing about how to remove it (I 
guess they couldn't conceive of that).

Then I tried kpackage and SOT showed up twice.  The first one returned 
an error of "can't find readme in file index" and several other files.  
Then it disappeared from the kpackage listing.  So I clicked on the 
other one, and it tells me SOT isn't installed.  And yet it is still 
living there in its folder in my home directory, taking up a lot of 
space.  Help! Help!

Thanks,

Marian
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