[PLUG] Removing OOo with yum ... or?

Dan Young danielmyoung at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 23:40:37 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:44 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> the folder and did "rpm install *.rpm" and it all worked. But I don't
> even know the names of the old RPMs, so I'm not sure how to uninstall
> them while being sure that I get them all.

Something like this will get you in the ballpark:
rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice

If you "yum install yum-utils" you can use the handy "package-cleanup"
tool to list installed RPMs that aren't available from currently
installed Yum repositories:
package-cleanup --orphans

-- 
Dan Young



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