How to uninstall programs

[MTK]

I downloaded Fedora electronics lab and it came with a text editor called XEmacs and it took over gedit.

How do I uninstall XEmacs?

I was also wondering in general how to uninstall programs from linux because when I search for XEmacs in Add/Remove software, I get a overwhelming list of stuff that I don't understand where in Windows there would be just one listing per program.

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Whenever possible, it's generally best to use the default package tool for your distribution to install/remove packages. If you installed a package from source, check inside the decompressed package files for any readme instructions for removal. On occasion, packages installed from source can be rather difficult remove.

[MTK]

I don't know how it installed and where Linux installs programs.

I just typed this:

# yum groupinstall 'Electronic Lab'

and it installed some programs including XEmacs.

[oz]

Then you can probably use yum to remove xemacs, unless some other app or file depends on xemacs. In that case, you might be able to force the removal.

It's been a long time since I last used yum, so someone else might have to step in with some advice, or you can run man yum for more details on how to use it.

[waterhead]

I'm sure that XEmacs is better for Electronic lab stuff, that is why it was installed. Most "geeks" prefer Emacs, but I'm not geeky enough to understand why. But I doubt that it removed gedit. It may have replaced it as the default text editor, but it should still be available from the menu, as "text editor".

[MTK]

This did it:

yum erase xemacs

Now gedit "Text Editor" is default agian.