need help on getting started with uninstalling gnome

[SynapticBurst]

I gotsta uninstall gnome! Reason being, it's taking up a HUGE chunk out of my CPU processing. I already have other WM's to take the place of this heinous install-by-default WM. By the way, I'm currently using RedHat 7.2, and I have all that i need (dockapps) to get along just fine. I intend on keeping the libs, though, just in case i need em. Could you also recommend a rpm manager. Thanx a bunch!

[David Dorward]

When it comes to rpm managers I haven't found anything better then rpm itself.

Start of with "rpm -la" to get a list of everything installed. If it scolls off the screen you could look at it in a pager "rpm -la | less" or stick it in to a text file "rpm -la > installed-rpms.txt"

Then remove stuff with "rpm -e packagename"

Don't include the version information with the package name.

[Linuxcool]

I thought it was rpm -qa? A ' q ' instead of an ' l '. :confused:

[danrees]

Linuxcool is right. The -q packagename switch is to list installed packages matching packagename, while the -l filename switch queries an uninstalled RPM of filename.