how to find and remove all software that installed

[thanhwru]

Dear all,

i have an issue as follow:

i want to remove all everything softwares that i installed it on fedora, but keep all libraries of original fedora. because some times i recognize that when i remove software via tool: Add/Remove software from fedora, it is difficult to find and remove exactly all softwares that i want and maybe a library of original fedora is also removed.

thanks all,

thanhwru83@gmail.com

[BBQdave]

Originally Posted by thanhwru

i want to remove all everything softwares that i installed it on fedora, but keep all libraries of original fedora.

It would save you time and be more efficient to do a base install. That would achieve what you are attempting, in a timely manner

[DBelton]

I agree with BBQdave.

There is the yum history command that allows you to undo transactions, but if you wish to go back to a clean install, then the best way is to do a clean install.

Even the yum history command would probably remove some libs that you wish to keep.

[RupertPupkin]

I believe you can remove all packages that you installed with yum like this:

yum history rollback 0

See the yum man page for more details.

[errorxp]

I usually do something like this after a fresh livecd install to remove some crap:

yum erase abrt* cheese brasero totem totem-mozplugin rhythmbox vino vinagre transmission* evolution empathy sound-juicer orca

I also use the yum history command to erase packages that i've previously installed. These are the commands you might need:

yum history
yum history info ID
yum history undo ID

[thanhwru]

thanks all, but it is not successful. can you show me how the way to remove all things, including all softwares that installed from other account but it copied to the account that using. However, don't remove all libraries of fedora

[errorxp]

I don't understand what you mean, only the root user can install software.

[thanhwru]

Dear errorxp,

my meaning is as following,

my laptop are running Fedora 15, and i have 2 user accounts with the name of "thanh"=user 1 and "khtn" = user 2, but there is an issue with "thanh" user account. therefore i have to transfer all softwares and database that i installed on "thanh" user to "khtn" user. However, all softwares that i installed on "thanh" before is troubled, so i want to remove all softwares that transferred from "thanh" old user to "khtn" user, but keep the database and the library of fedora.

Thanks so much

[sea]

Is that database an actual database one needs to connect to, or more some sort of a (single?) file?

Also, which might be more important, what kind of issues has that user account?
Is it an a file access issue: man chown, if its a permission issue: selinux might be the cause.

[DBelton]

Most of the applications are installed for all users to use, but each user has it's own configuration files in their home directory.

So what you really want is to leave the software installed so that other users can use it, just remove the configuration files for the messed up user.

Once you get the new user set up and working properly, and any files you wish to keep copied over to the new user, you can just delete the old user's home folder. That will take care of all of their configuration files. About the only other location where there are user specific files is in /tmp which are temporary files and can be deleted if you wish.