Re: possibly a basic question...

["Hall" <dhs erinet com>]

I can help with part # 1 of your question... but only you know exactly what
gnome packages you installed. Do you ? If not, go to a gnome mirror and
print out, look at, whatever the packages that are available.

To remove them, you type "rpm -e package-name".

The "-e" is for "erase". When you specify the package name, you do *not*
include the version number, architecture, or the rpm extension. For example,
the package "gnome-core-devel-1.0.3-4.i386.rpm" would be "erased" with this
command:

rpm -e gnome-core-devel

You can do them all in one command too. For instance, "rpm -e gnome-core
gnome-core-devel gnome-libs gnome-libs-devel". If you don't do them all at
once, it will likely fail since the packages "depend" on other packages. In
that case, to remove one package at a time, add the "--nodeps" flag (after
the -e ... example: "rpm -e --nodeps package-name")

Good luck!
Hall

----- Original Message -----
From: hitch <hitchhiker@cybermail.net>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 2:05 PM
Subject: possibly a basic question...


> can anyone either give or point me to instructions on how to
> a) remove the gnome rpms...
> and
> b) install ALL of gnome from CVS.
>
> and assume I know next to nothing.
>
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