From help-request at octave dot org Wed Feb 16 08:23:20 2005
Subject: Re: Removing an old version
From: LUK ShunTim <shuntim dot luk at polyu dot edu dot hk>
To: Diego Ruiz <diego dot ruiz at ietcat dot org>
CC: help at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:27:57 +0800

Diego Ruiz wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I've just installed version 2.1.64 in my Fedora 2 system and it 
> turns out that both installations are "coexisting". I mean my hard 
> drive is plenty of files and directories of version 2.1.57.
> 
> Is there a "safe" way for removing all of them without leaving 
> "traces" of it in the HD?
> 

Provided you the old version comes from fedora itself,
"rpm -e octave-2.1.57" should do the job. To be safe, issue a
"rpm -q octave" to see what version(s) you've got first.

"man rpm" is your friend. :-)

Regards,
ST
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