Re: Cleaning up HDD

[Sridhar Iyengar <iyengars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try using :

$ rpm -e <package_name>
to uninstall a particular rpm package. But for this you need to specifically
know the package name. For more info/other options see "man rpm".

-Sridhar

RAVIKANT K RAO wrote:

> I have a running RedHat 6.1 installation - EVERYTHING - installed... and
> then I downloaded a 20 MB tgz file which on un decompressing filled up my
> entire HDD . What apps can i now safely remove and how ? I couldnt find
> the equivalent of dpkg --purge with rpm ...
>   Or is it like a mac where I could just rm -rf * and that would amount to
> an 'uninstall' of packages ?
>   Of course GnoRPM is one thing that helps... but what I was untarring was
> the latest X server which has messed up my libs since i've not given it
> the full space it wants. So I cant start X.
>   I need a command line equivalent of uninstalling things I wont need.
>   TIA
> - Ravi.
>

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