Re: erasing multiple packages

[James Olin Oden <joden malachi lee k12 nc us>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Debbie Mazurek wrote:

> This might do it:
> rpm -e `rpm -qa | -i grep somepkg`
>
But its an awfully frightning thing to do...james
  
> dm
> 
> On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 14:07, Prakash_Nara@dell.com wrote:
> > Is there a way to erase multiple packages in a single transaction without
> > naming all the packages.
> > 
> > I know something like the following works.
> > rpm -e somepkgagent  somepkgclient  somepkgserver  somepkgsomething.
> > 
> > But the following doesn't work
> > rpm -e somepkg*
> > 
> > Does anyone know a better way to erase a bunch of rpms without naming them
> > all?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
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