18.3. Uninstalling Packages

Warning

Before you start uninstalling packages, make sure you know what you are doing and inquire about the dependencies carefully. RpmDrake manages dependencies, but it is always sound to be very careful.

Uninstalling a package means removing it from your system. This is useful to gain disk space or prevent security incidents. Of course, you can only remove already installed ones: so select a package in the Installed list. For example, let us try to uninstall the emacs package, which has been installed so emacs-pcomplete can work. Again, use the flat list to find it easily, then select it. You can also use the Find tool.

Figure 18-6. Uninstalling Packages

When this is done, click on the Install/Remove button. The RpmDrake window is replaced by another wizard, which tells you that another package will be removed, in our example emacs-pcomplete. This makes sense: we said earlier that emacs was necessary for emacs-pcomplete to work. If we remove emacs, then emacs-pcomplete will not work any more, so we should also remove it – to keep the whole system consistent.

At this point, if you click on Next, the packages are removed from your system. Note that you can still install them again, if you wish to use them after all... Just click on Quit to go back to RpmDrake.


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