[plug] RPM uninstall

[Jason Nicholls]

G'day,

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:34:16PM +0800, Robert Andrews wrote:
> Hi all can sombody give me the correct syntax to rpm to uninstall a package
> I want to uninstall sendmail
> so rpm -q sendmail returns sendmail-8.9.3-15
> so rpm -U sendmail-8.9.3-15
> returns error: cannot open file sendmail-8.9.3-15

How about using the man page when you run into problems like this. eg:

	$ man rpm

Quite comprehesive information, you will find the command you are after is

	$ rpm -e <packagename>


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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