Linux Software Uninstall

The Linux system is not like windows, so you can remove the software from the control page or program management directly, and in Linux you must use the command method to remove the software.

First, RPM package installed software
1. Determine the software version
Rpm-qa|grep softname*
Softname is the software name and the indeterminate part can be used with the * wildcard character. Then there will be a list of related packages.
2. Uninstalling the Package
Rpm-e softname_version
Softname_version is the full package name.
When uninstalling the RPM installation package, you will often encounter the following error:

Error:specifies multiple packages, this error typically occurs because there are two or more packages with the same name, (typically: both x86 and x64 packages are installed), and Linux cannot differentiate the unload target. At this point, you can use the--allmatches parameter, tell the uninstaller, as long as the match is unloaded, equivalent to the same name and both unloaded.
Common uninstall errors xxx.so is needed by yyy, these libraries are dependent on these programs (operational needs), if the confirmation is not a problem, you can use the--nodeps parameter, regardless of dependencies and directly uninstall the GD package, such as # RPM-E GD-- Allmatches--nodeps

RPM-E--nodeps Software forced uninstallation

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Linux Software Uninstall