how do u uninstall s/w in linux?

[Ender510]

This is a general question.. how do you uninstall software that you install in linux? And is it clean? My background is windows, and using uninstall or getting rid of entries from the registry and such.. is it as messy in linux as it is in windows?

 

[shathal]

man rpm for the simple things in linux RPM-install/uninstall.

Yes, RPM-uninstall (if you use a distribution that does use RPM) *IS* clean - and certainly a lot cleaner than Windoze - never had problems with Linux in that respect.

If I remember rightly, something like rpm -uvh XXX should sort you out.

-u => Uninstall (methinks)
-v => Verbose (always handy)
-h => Hashhed (i.e.: ##############'s). Just good visual reference.

Helps you, I hope? .

 

[Thyme]

I know with mandrake there is a RPM management program, but I can't remember what it's called., maybe "install software". It's on the desktop. If you set that to "installed packages," you can uninstall it from there graphically.

 

[Soccerman]

In mandrake 8, there is an icon by default on your desktop called Software Manager (I'm running Mandrake 8 in KDE) when using KDE. click on it, and you can install, or uninstall any RPMs (whether on the CD or not).