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honkeyman
07-24-2001, 03:11 AM
But I need to know. Is there an add remove programs command that is like the one that is in Windoes? I have abiword and it is saying that it is already installed. I am at a lost. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.
scanez
07-24-2001, 03:14 AM
Hi,

A little more info would be useful. What distro are you using? Manrake, RedHat, Debian, Slack,...? What do you want to do with Abiword? Uninstall, install?

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Iassen
07-24-2001, 03:46 AM
well, as far as i know, if you install it as rpm, you can rpm -e <packagename>
If you compiled it, go to its directory - make uninstall.
also redhat's gnorpm helps analysing and installing/uninstalling rpm packages
honkeyman
07-24-2001, 01:43 PM
Sorry,

Running redhat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.2 and I need to get it uninstalled because I gat an error stating that it is not installed properly.
scanez
07-24-2001, 03:06 PM
As said before, for an rpm use

rpm -e abiword

How did you install abiword in the first place? Try the RedHat CD or ftp site. They have an rpm for abiword there.

As for Add/Remove programs, also as said before, GnoRPM in GNOME or KPackage in KDE show info on installed rpms and let's you install/remove...

SC