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Submitted by mborn on Tue, 29/06/2004 - 20:04.
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Peace,

I have made a fresh installation of fedora core on my brother's pc. I have chosen everything to be installed. That caused all language packages to be installed like kde-i18.fr.rpm and all other languages. How may I remove them?

Max

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system-config-packages is a p
Submitted by CVirus on Tue, 06/07/2004 - 09:01.

system-config-packages is a pretty good packages configuration tool ... I really dunno if it will do the job or not ... maybe u can use YUM to remove what u want ... here is a decent YUM article that would help http://www.eglug.org/book/view/159

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Well, It did not help. syste
Submitted by mborn on Tue, 06/07/2004 - 18:27.

Well, It did not help. system-config-packages is the bad package manager of fedoracore, I would love to be able to see a list of ALL the packages installed on my system (grouped, or at least alphabetically) so I can decide which to remove.

Max

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Submitted by whirlpool on Sun, 11/07/2004 - 14:54.

Mborn, I can see that you are having a lot of trouble with fedora. I think you should be trying a distro that has some form of documentation. It seems that since fedora is still new, there is no documentation to help you.

From http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/

Since the project is new, there aren't many docs at this time. However, there are many in the works, and an Installation Guide is being developed for the next release of Fedora Core.

On the other hand there are more mature distros out there that comes with tremendous amount of useful and helpful documentation. Here is a list of such distros:

Mandrake: Mandrake manuals

Debian: Debian documentation

Slackware: Slackware book

RedHat: RedHat Documentation


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Thank you very much for the c
Submitted by mborn on Mon, 12/07/2004 - 01:07.

Thank you very much for the concern you have. I have a problem in configuring some of fedora features, but as a distro, No, I dont. I have tried RedHat since 7.0 (and all that follows) I have also tried Mandrake, since 8.0 up to Mandrake 10 Powerpack Plus I have tried Debian, and Susi. Also, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3. In my work, It is Red Hat that is taken as standard (RH 7.3)

My problem in packaging started since Red Hat 8.0. I cant SEE what packages do I have on my system. I know there are command to help me find out, but I dont know them. I have no time to read manuals and Howtos, so I ask. Most of my questions are about how to do basic things simply because I only want tpo know basic things. When time is available, I do read, and I am concerned about programming now, especially C and C++, I have Richie book :). So, again!, do you know how may I know all the packages I have on my computer, and how may I get rid of those I dont want (rpm -e foo, :) )

Max

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hello
Submitted by CVirus on Mon, 12/07/2004 - 02:40.

removing packages is easy as u said rpm -e package_name ... and for getting a list of the packages installed u have no choice left except this rpm -qa|sort|more ... Peace

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مرحى يا عزيزي أ
Submitted by mborn on Wed, 14/07/2004 - 15:36.

مرحى يا عزيزي أنا الأن أسبح في بحر من ألاوامر و البرامج التي لا أعرف لها حصرا هل هناك أمر يمكننا من عرضها بحسب الأبجدية مثلا أن يعرض كل البرامج التي تبدأ بحرف كذا

Max

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