Hi all,

Package Management utility included in RH8.0 does not permit to remove standard package. How can i cleanly and completely remove KDE3 (3.0.3)?

Thanks in advance!

The very easiest way is to reinstall. Short of that, you can query the rpm database and hand remove those RPM's associated with KDE:
rpm -qa | grep kde > kde.txt

This will create a text file with which you can remove all packages associated with KDE:
rpm -e kde.txt

Not too sure how well that'd work. However, you should for sure be able to simply:
rpm -qa | grep kde
Then take each file listed and:
rpm -e filename
replacing filename with the actual filename

This is all in the command line, all with root.

Cool

I recently (tonight) tried to do something similar under Mandrake 8. I found this to be very difficult. Basically I wanted to get rid of all the X stuff since I'm using the machine in question as a server. I still want to keep a handful of X applications, however - like MandrakeUpdate, which I export to cygwin on my WinXP machine when I really need to.

The one filename per line thing may not work if you find yourself running into RPMs which depend upon each other. You have to erase them all at the same time - ie rpm -e <file1> <file2>.