[WBEL-users] How to uninstall an rpm package which has dependencies?

[Jean Lee]

And using nodeps won't create any problem with netdump after 
reinstalling Openssh (or do I have to be careful with some shared 
libraries)?

Thank you

Graham Purcocks wrote:

> No nothing wrong. You can't uninstall openssh as the packages it 
> mentions depends on it. So you either force uninstall or remove the 
> dependant packages as well at the same time. I suspect you want the 
> first. Use --nodeps.
>
> Try reading 'man rpm' on the section on ERASEING packages. This may 
> give you more insight.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Jean Lee wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I think that what I want is not so hard but I really don't know how 
>> to do it.
>>
>> My problem is that I want to unintsall openssh-3.6.1p2 which is 
>> installed as an rpm package and then install openssh-3.9p1-chroot 
>> which is a tarball (it is a patched version of  Openssh-3.9p1 with 
>> added chroot functionnality).
>>
>> Well, I tried first to uninstall openssh-3.6.1p2 with :
>> rpm -e openssh
>> and this command failed due to dependencies to other packages : 
>> openssh-server, openssh-client, netdump and a few others related to 
>> openssh...
>>
>> I'm sure that I am doing something wrong. Perhaps that I can firstly 
>> uninstall the packages related to openssh but the one with netdump is 
>> probably not recommended.. Moreover, I tried to uninstall 
>> openssh-server and it failed due to a dependency to netdump-server.
>>
>> What is the right way? Do I have really to uninstall every package 
>> which has a dependency before uninstalling openssh or is there 
>> another way which ensure that nothing will be broken?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Jean
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