Do you still have the RedHat CD used for the install? Then check the file: RedHat/base/comps (or "compss") That file lists the packages and the group it belongs to. You should be able to write a script (or just cut & paste the section you want) that erases the packages that belong to a certain group. Be sure to watch out for dependencies -- use the appropriate rpm flags to instruct rpm what to do about file dependencies. -Mark On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jessica wrote: > I have a redhat server which apparently has a default install. Is there > any simple way to remove all packages in specific categories (eg. X11, > games)? Or must I go through and remove each of the packages manually? > > If the latter is the case, can anyone think of a simple way to script the > removal of all the packages, given the names of files in a directory? > (Simply feeding the results of ls to rpm won't work, since not all the > names directly correspond to the names of their packages). > > jessica > --- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/mark/ PGP key available upon request.
