uninstallin a software in fedora

[pradeeprajkumar]

Hi there,
anyone please tell me how to uninstall the previously installed unwanted softwares, in fedora 13(i'm using an 64 bit system).

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

If you have installed packages using Package Manager, yum then execute yum remove <package_name> command to uninstall those packages.

su -
yum remove package

Or
Install Graphical Interface of yum, Yum Extender (yumex).

yum -y install yumex

You can remove packages using rpm -e command too.

rpm -e package

[pradeeprajkumar]

Thanks a lot...
Where the installed files will be stored ? (in which folder, by default) ?
can we change the destination folder ?
how ?

[devils casper]

Linux doesn't work like Windows OSes. I would suggest you to check its Filesystem structure first. In a few mins, you will know how/where files get stored during package installation.

[Irithori]

You can check the file locations of a RPM package with this

rpm -qvl <packagename>

In theory, you can change the destination directory, but *only* if the RPM is relocateable.
Probably not many RPMs are designed that way, so you might be out of luck here.

If you absolutely need the files to be somewhere else, I would suggest building your own RPMs.

Of course, one could symlink files and dirs or use bind mounts, but that would introduce unneeded complexity.