Ali Aboosaidi » rpm http://insanelabs.com Umm... Unorthodox? Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:04:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Linux: Remove installed RPM packages manually http://insanelabs.com/linux/linux-remove-installed-rpm-packages-manually/ http://insanelabs.com/linux/linux-remove-installed-rpm-packages-manually/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:02:53 +0000 Ali http://insanelabs.com/?p=869
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    • ]]>     Sometimes you screw up an application and are unable to use rpm -e to remove them from your system. Here is how you go about doing that:

    To find installed RPM packages:

    rpm -qa | grep <string>

    To remove:

    rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches <package name>

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