Hi, 

you can obtain an alphabetical list of all installed packages with the command

 rpm -qa |sort

If I remember correctly, the tsm package names all start with TIV, so  

 rpm -qa | grep TIV

should give you what you want.

 Rainer

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 at 20:07 +0200, Lee, Gary wrote:

 > Trying to upgrade our tsm client on a sles10 instance under vm.
 > 
 > I need to uninstall the tsm client, but can't seem to get the syntax to 
 > query the system for what pachages are installed, so as to uninstall the 
 > correct one.
 > 
 > Rpm seems awefully cryptic to me.
 > Any help is appreciated.
 > 
 > 
 > Gary Lee
 > Senior System Programmer
 > Ball State University
 > phone: 765-285-1310
 > 
 >