Removing applications

[David Smith]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:14, Jorge Cecílio wrote:
> Hi all:
>  
> After a full FC2 installation, I started to remove some programs: That
> included all games.
> I couldn't do that because of the error: "Packages not found (...)
> Installation cannot continue until they are installed".
> (I use Gnome Package management)
>  
> It asked for:
> libatlantic.so.1
> libatlantikui.so.1
> libkdegames.so.1
> kdegames (twice)
> (required by kdeaddons)
>  
>  
> Strange... should I have to install something in order to uninstall
> anything?
> How do I install that files (libraries, right?)
>  
>  
> Except for 'kdegames', all required files exists in /usr/lib. Should
> it exists on other folders (perhaps by means of a symbolic link)?
> Where?
> (kdegames exists only as a folder)
>  
> By the way... If I want to install a package that is not listed in
> Package management, should I have to install it using rpm -i command?
>  
>  
>  
> Can anyone help?
>  
> Thanks in advance,
> JC
You can use rpm -qa |grep <what you are looking for> to find the exact
package name and then you rpm -e <package name> to uninstall it.
As far as the package manager for gnome, I'm not sure haven't used it
since like gnome 2.2. Sorry.
David
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