[oclug] help with rpm

Tom Lauzon vp1956 at shaw.ca
Sun Aug 4 08:31:17 EDT 2002


On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Ross Jordan wrote:

> 
> 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)
> 

Thanks I did :
for i in `rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep regexp | tr ` `; do rpm -i; done

ran it twice and then cleared out a few dependences by hand. gave me back 
almost 500M.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

--
Tom Lauzon
vp1956 at shaw.ca




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