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

[Mickael Maddison]

Hello Jean,

You can try rpm -e --nodeps packagename

Not sure if your new ssh will break anything by not being there.

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 Mickael
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Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 12:48:24 AM, you wrote:

JL> Hello all,

JL> I think that what I want is not so hard but I really don't know how to
JL> do it.

JL> My problem is that I want to unintsall openssh-3.6.1p2 which is 
JL> installed as an rpm package and then install openssh-3.9p1-chroot which
JL> is a tarball (it is a patched version of  Openssh-3.9p1 with added
JL> chroot functionnality).

JL> Well, I tried first to uninstall openssh-3.6.1p2 with :
JL> rpm -e openssh
JL> and this command failed due to dependencies to other packages : 
JL> openssh-server, openssh-client, netdump and a few others related to
JL> openssh...

JL> I'm sure that I am doing something wrong. Perhaps that I can firstly
JL> uninstall the packages related to openssh but the one with netdump is
JL> probably not recommended.. Moreover, I tried to uninstall openssh-server
JL> and it failed due to a dependency to netdump-server.

JL> What is the right way? Do I have really to uninstall every package which
JL> has a dependency before uninstalling openssh or is there another way
JL> which ensure that nothing will be broken?

JL> Thanks for any help,

JL> Jean
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