[Techtalk] Re: Techtalk digest - uninstalling programs in Linux

[Magni Onsoien]

Marian Routh:
> installation in their home directory.  So from what you're saying, I 
> should rpm -qa | grep SOT and just delete everything I find (assuming 
> that rpm -e doesn't work).  Believe me, you wouldn't want me to post 
> the rpm - it was a 70MB d/l and has unpacked itself to be something 
> giant.

>From their webpage http://www.sot.com/en/linux/soto/download.shtml it
may look like the RPM is named soto (not SOT), and then 'rpm -qa |grep
SOT' or 'rpm -e SOT' won't work. Either try 'rpm -e soto' or try 'rpm
-qa |grep -i sot' (-i to grep means incasesensitive).

I would NOT recommend using 'rpm -qa |grep -i sot' and then 'rpm -ql
<package>' and then at last remove all the files you find. RPM will
still have SOT (or soto) regiseted in it's package database, and you may
have problems later if you try to install another version of the package
or even when you try to install another program (if the new program needs
a library or another file from SOT, or if there is a file conflict). Be
completely sure about what you are doing before manually removing files
from rpm-packages.


Magni :)
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