General proc. for uninstalling software?

[Alexander Appel]

Am Freitag, den 12.11.2004, 17:13 +0100 schrieb Hans Troost:
> Is there a general way to "uninstall" software and are there pitfalls
> I have 
> to avoid (and how).
> 
> Examples: I want to remove the whole XIMIAN stuff, I am happy with
> KMAIL, I 
> want to remove the whole MOZILLA-suite and replace it by a web-
> browser-only 
> program like Firefox and I want to remove a lot of other software I
> just 
> installed to try and no longer use.
> 
> My only installation experience up to now is with YUM (used update,
> install 
> and search) and RPM -IVH. Not further experience nor in general nor
> with 
> these programs.


A simple 'yum remove PROGNAME' will do the job. Example: 'yum remove
evolution' will remove the Ximian Evolution program (and everything that
depends on it) from your system. It may be possible (I can't remember if
it's only the FC1 Openoffice or the FC2 too) that Openoffice needs the
Mozilla package to run, so you may have to keep it if you want to use
Openoffice, but yum will tell you about every program it has to remove
to satisfy the dependencies.

Greetings,
Alexander Appel