Uninstalling

[Kevin Cozens]

At 06:57 PM 02/19/2004, Sid wrote:
> > On Thu February 19 2004 5:41 pm, Sidney Shapiro wrote:
> > > On a RH9 box, how can I uninstall an RPM? I installed spamassassin,
>but
> > > a later version of the one I needed. How can I find what the exact
>name
> > > of the one installed is and how do I get rid of it?
[snip]
>But where can I see a list of installed packages?

As was mentioned by someone else, 'rpm -qa' will give you a list of ALL 
installed packages. If you want to check the version of one in particular, 
you can use 'rpm -qa |grep spamassassin' for example. If you have installed 
an older version of the spamassassin RPM and you need a newer one (its not 
clear from your original message), you just run 'rpm -Uvh <package name>', 
where '<package name>' is the full name of the rpm you want to install. You 
do not need to remove the old package before upgrading to the new package.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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