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Spyke : 04/09/02 01:06 AM : Incident created -   how do i kill the apps i dont want?
Linegod_7611 : 04/09/02 09:21 AM : Reply received -   To uninstall apps, either use the Software Manager to uninstall them, or at a console, as root, do: # rpm -e appname For example, if you wanted to uninstall apache, do: # rpm -e apache If it tells you there are other apps that depend on 'apache', you would add those to the 'rpm -e' command # rpm -e apache apache-suexec ------- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this incident.
Spyke : 04/09/02 01:58 PM : More info provided -   what about adding them?
starfan : 04/09/02 04:05 PM : Reply received -   Adding programs is pretty much just as simple. The Software Manager, accessable from the menus and the Mandrake Control Center (aka rpmdrake) will install and uninstall and is perhaps the simplest way if you know little about doing it on the command line. There is of course the old: rpm -ivh packagename that installs, and rpm -Uvh packagename that updates a package with a new one you have. There is a more intuitave command line version you have which is urpm To install use (as root of course) urpmi packagename to uninstall urpme packagename It will prompt you for CDs and tell you about dependancies and what not. Here is the difference: urpm is much like the software manager. It knows what CDs you have and you can add sources to both. They are linked I think so what you have in one should be in the other. It will only install programs that which you have defined sources for. It knows nothing about the file you just downloaded to your desktop. rpm -option(s) packagename is the old way. It's much more manual and knows nothing about the CDs. You must have the package on your machine. You go into the directory the file is in and issue the command. It can tell you about dependancies, but it won't install them for you. For more info read the man pages on them in a console man rpm man urpmi To navigate man pages, press space to go down a page, Enter to go down a line, b to go back a page and q to quit. Hopefully this answers your questions. Please be sure to close the incident if it does. Thanks!
Spyke : 04/09/02 09:06 PM : Incident closed -

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