On 5/23/22 15:53, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> I have been trying to use rpm or dnf to remove some rpms. Most the
> ones I am concerned with are docker related, and or to do with go
> (golang). You certainly can't use wildcards with rpm erase. I have a
> list generated with the date these rpms were installed, but I am not
> THAT good with CLI and bash operations like cut, xargs, sed and so on
> to alter the list; and I wouldn't be sure how to pipe the list
> contents or redirect to rpm the text's content from the ascii text
> file, to erase these particular rpms. Is there a way to mass erase
> many files (with rpm switches or such) using rpm? Here is an example
> of what I have been trying to do, ex:
>
> list.txt,
>
>
> gcc-devel // example,
>
> python-devel //example
>
> rpm -e // would this list content be redirectable to rpm -e ?
>
> cat list.txt
>
> lists rpms,
>
> rpm -e < cat list, or
>
> cat list | rpm -e
>
> do not work.
>
>
>
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Write your list so that all the packages are on a single line, and just
add rpm -e to the head of that line:
rpm -e foo bar baz
Or:
for i in `cat list`; do rpm -e $i
I would honestly probably use yum for this, though, since it takes care
of dependencies and the like.
So if your list of packages is:
foo bar baz
I would just add "yum remove" to the beginning of the list:
yum -y remove foo bar baz
Thomas
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