Re: can't remove eclipses. [SOLVED]

Thursday, 18 March 2021

On 3/18/21 12:26 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
...
 On 3/18/21 10:13 AM, home user wrote:
> A long time ago, almost certainly using dnf or yum, I installed 
> "Eclipse" and something that starts with "Eclipse C/C++".
> [... snip ...]
> How do I remove these applications that I never use?

 "rpm -qa | grep eclipse" should show you most of them.
 Run "dnf group remove eclipse" first to remove the group and most of the 
 packages.
 You might need to run "dnf remove '*eclipse*' " after to remove some 
 more.  I seem to have a bunch of eclipse packages that aren't part of 
 the group. 
Since Jonathan's solution worked, I did not get to try your suggestions. 
  But they look like good things to keep in mind in the future.

Oh, wait...

-bash.4[~]: dnf remove '*eclipse*'
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
  Package                        Arch      Version 
Repository   Size
================================================================================
Removing:
  eclipse-ecf-core               noarch    3.14.8-4.fc32       @updates 
    861 k
  eclipse-emf-core               noarch    1:2.22.0-2.fc32     @updates 
    2.0 M
  eclipse-equinox-osgi           x86_64    1:4.16-13.fc32      @updates 
    3.5 M
  eclipse-swt                    x86_64    1:4.16-13.fc32      @updates 
    7.3 M
  eclipselink-persistence-api    noarch    2.1.0-9.fc31        @fedora 
    192 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove  5 Packages

Freed space: 14 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
   Preparing        : 
      1/1
   Erasing          : eclipselink-persistence-api-2.1.0-9.fc31.noarch 
      1/5
   Erasing          : eclipse-equinox-osgi-1:4.16-13.fc32.x86_64 
      2/5
   Erasing          : eclipse-emf-core-1:2.22.0-2.fc32.noarch 
      3/5
   Erasing          : eclipse-ecf-core-3.14.8-4.fc32.noarch 
      4/5
   Erasing          : eclipse-swt-1:4.16-13.fc32.x86_64 
      5/5
   Running scriptlet: eclipse-swt-1:4.16-13.fc32.x86_64 
      5/5
   Verifying        : eclipse-ecf-core-3.14.8-4.fc32.noarch 
      1/5
   Verifying        : eclipse-emf-core-1:2.22.0-2.fc32.noarch 
      2/5
   Verifying        : eclipse-equinox-osgi-1:4.16-13.fc32.x86_64 
      3/5
   Verifying        : eclipse-swt-1:4.16-13.fc32.x86_64 
      4/5
   Verifying        : eclipselink-persistence-api-2.1.0-9.fc31.noarch 
      5/5

Removed:
   eclipse-ecf-core-3.14.8-4.fc32.noarch 

   eclipse-emf-core-1:2.22.0-2.fc32.noarch 

   eclipse-equinox-osgi-1:4.16-13.fc32.x86_64 

   eclipse-swt-1:4.16-13.fc32.x86_64 

   eclipselink-persistence-api-2.1.0-9.fc31.noarch 

Complete!
-bash.5[~]:

I almost missed those!  Thank-you, Samuel.

Bill.