[RESOLVED] Trouble uninstalling a package

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motogeeeksatyam
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[RESOLVED] Trouble uninstalling a package

Post by motogeeeksatyam » 2012/10/28 14:17:02

I accidently downloaded and installed :
VMware-VIX-1.12.0-812388.i386.bundle which is an VMware VIX API for 32-bit Linux.bundle Installation file for 32-bit Linux

but i rather wanted this file:
VMware Player for Linux 32-bit.bundle Installation file for 32-bit Linux

Now i have downloaded the VMware Player for Linux 32-bit.bundle and it is successfully running in my PC that i downloaded from : https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/5_0

But i want to uninstall the package i installed earlier which is:
VMware-VIX-1.12.0-812388.i386.bundle

I tried to do so by using rpm command:

First i tried to query by using this:

rpm -qa |grep VM

but nothing came up so i thought beacuse the package was not a rpm one from which i installed this package that is why rpm is unable to show anything.

Any help would be appreciated.

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[RESOLVED] Trouble uninstalling a package

Post by TrevorH » 2012/10/28 14:32:29

It's possible that it isn't an RPM package but perhaps a case insensitive grep might find it...

rpm -qa |grep -i VM

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Re: Trouble uninstalling a package

Post by motogeeeksatyam » 2012/10/30 17:08:19

This List i got after running your specified command:

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[msatyam@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -i VM
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-1.el6.i686
libXxf86vm-1.1.0-1.el6.i686
lvm2-libs-2.02.95-10.el6_3.2.i686
libXxf86vm-devel-1.1.0-1.el6.i686
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.7.0-1.el6.i686
lvm2-2.02.95-10.el6_3.2.i686
libXvMC-1.0.4-8.1.el6.i686
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Could you help me which package should i uninstall.

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Re: Trouble uninstalling a package

Post by TrevorH » 2012/10/30 18:52:19

That doesn't look like whatever you installed used an RPM package.

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Re: [RESOLVED] Trouble uninstalling a package

Post by motogeeeksatyam » 2012/10/31 18:27:02

I found the command how to uninstall this product:

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vmware-installer --uninstall-product vmware-vix
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Please mark it Resolved and please let me know that which vmware-player version is best for my linux i.e. CentOS6.3.
I tried running the latest version of vmware-player but it makes my PC hung and restarts the system with some weird error.
i need to run a .vmx file.

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