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luqo33
luqo33

Reputation: 8361

yum remove does not work for erlang*

I installed erlang with

wget http://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

sudo yum install erlang

Now I wanted to remove it, I run yum remove erlang* - this didn't work. The output message is:

[ec2-user@ip-111-11-11-11 ~]$ sudo yum remove elrang*
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
No Match for argument: elrang*
No Packages marked for removal

Why cannot I remove erlang the same way I installed it? How can I remove it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4314

Answers (1)

Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey

Reputation: 54563

Two reasons:

  • one (mentioned by @byaruhaf) is that your example command for removal has a typographical error.

  • the other is that in both cases, you are using a shell command which globs (matches via wildcard) the actual rpm filename. But yum expects its argument to be a package (not a filename).

For whatever reason, yum accepts a filename for installing, but not for removing (checked with CentOS6).

Upvotes: 4

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