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Remove install packages using ID with YUM

Posted on February 14, 2014

HI all,

Try to find on the net but didn’t helped me out. I have installed follow package using this command

yum groupinstall “General Purpose Desktop” “Desktop Platform”

But want to uninstall it. when i use yum remove “General Purpose Desktop” “Desktop Platform” that is not working

[root@mail ~]# yum history Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit ID | Login user | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered

136 | <admin> | 2014-02-14 10:51 | Erase | 2 EE 135 | <admin> | 2014-02-14 10:19 | Install | 39
134 | <admin> | 2014-02-14 10:18 | Install | 2
133 | <admin> | 2014-02-14 10:04 | Install | 3
132 | <admin> | 2014-02-14 10:03 | Install | 1
131 | <admin> | 2014-02-14 09:57 | Install | 209

I see that ID 131 is the installation. But how can i delete this one?

Greets, Peter



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To remove a “Group of Packages” you do it with <code>groupremove</code>. In your case: <br><pre>yum groupremove “General Purpose Desktop”</pre>

That didn’t work. Thats why i did this question

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