Rpm Uninstall Package Tutorial

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The RPM packages are used to manage, install, update, and uninstall different software into Linux distributions. The rpm command can be used to uninstall a package that is already installed into the current Linux distribution.

List Installed RPM Packages

Before uninstalling the RPM package it can be useful to list existing or installed RPM packages. We can use the rpm -qa command to list installed packages. 

$ rpm -qa

This lists lots of packages where we may filter specific packages with the grep command.

$ rpm -qa | grep httpd

Uninstall RPM Package

Now we can uninstall the package with the rpm -e command by providing the package name. In the following example, we uninstall the package named httpd .

$ sudo rpm -e httpd

Uninstall Multiple RPM Packages

We can also uninstall multiple RPM packages at once by using the rpm -e command with the --allmatches option. In the following example, we uninstall packages named httpd, chrome, firefox.

$ sudo rpm -e --allmatches httpd chrome firefox

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