Kernel and its inbuilt appl....Help needed

[East]

Hi all

I have installed RedHat9.0 in my system. I have seen applications in /usr/share/applications and games in /usr/share/games etc. I want to remove application and games folders and when the system boots up for the next time, they should not be there.Currently i am deleting them manually in /usr/share folder for reducing the size of linux space. Is there any option to removing these folders by any selection in some where? is it possible?.
If so, can anyone help me to do the above.

[daark.child]

/usr/share/applications only contains shortcuts to applications and not the applications themselves, so you won't be reducing any disk space usage by deleting the contents in there. If you want to save disk space, use rpm to uninstall the packages that you do not need on your system. /usr/share/games only contains files needed by certain games, so deleting this won't save you much disk space either.

Just a note of advice, in the future, don't delete directories and files unless you know what they are for because you can end up with a broken system or things that don't work as expected. Also Red Hat 9 is now an obsolete distro, use something newer e.g. Fedora 8 and RHEL/ CentOS 5.

[East]

Thansk daark.child.

I have downloaded the rpm-4.4.2.2.tar.gz package. can anyone tell me the steps to upgrade the my linux packages using RPM.

[daark.child]

RPM is installed by default on Red Hat/Fedora so there is no need to installed it from source.

[East]

How can i remove the packages that are already installed? I have no idea about this.should i use the redhat Installation CD to remove the packages by upgrading the linux system?
can anyone help me?

[daark.child]

You use the rpm command like I stated above. Read the manual (man rpm) to find out how to use it and also take look at this guide.

[i92guboj]

As daark.child said, playing around with things you don't know about can give you big headaches.

You should really use your distro's package manager, which is what packages managers are for. And don't uninstall anything that you don't know what it is for.

If you are really concerned about what is or isn't installed on your system, better use a more low-level distro like Gentoo of LFS. That way you will know everything that's installed on your system. You are going to have to learn a bit for that, though.