[oclug] help with rpm

[Ross Jordan]

> 
> How can I remove packages based on a regexp using rpm?
> 
> What I want to do is remove all packages for kde ie kde*
> 
> Is this possible?, I do not look forward to removing them one-by-one.


Something along the lines of:
rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep regexp | tr '\n' ' '`

(You're probably still going to have dependency issues with this,
 which will require manual intervention)

-Ross

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