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

[Jean Lee]

Thank to all of you for your great help.
This mail is just to give a back and keep a trace,

I have created an rpm of the patched openssh (openssh-3.9p1-chroot) with 
the checkinstall binary. I called it openssh-3.9p1-1.i386.rpm and 
checkinstall automatically installed it.
I didn't do a  'yum remove openssh-3.6.1p2' because I didn't want to 
brake some dependencies.

When I type 'rpm -q openssh', I have a good return : openssh-3.9p1-1
but if I try to erase it 'rpm -e openssh', I have the following return :

error: Failed dependencies :
    openssh = 3.6.1p2-33.30.1 is needed by (installed) 
openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-33.30.1
    openssh = 3.6.1p2-33.30.1 is needed by (installed) 
openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-33.30.1
    openssh = 3.6.1p2-33.30.1 is needed by (installed) 
openssh-client-3.6.1p2-33.30.1
    openssh = 3.6.1p2-33.30.1 is needed by (installed) 
openssh-server-3.6.1p2-33.30.1

Another thing : If I type 'whereis sshd', the return is :
/usr/sbin/sshd and /usr/local/sbin/sshd .
It doesn't seem to be very good..

I will try now to upgrade these 4 tools with standard openssh-3.9p1 and 
see what will come.....

Jean

Randy Kelsoe wrote:

> 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).
>
>
>
> As I suggested in a previous thread of yours, get the checkinstall 
> package and install it. Then you can untar the openssh-3.9p1-chroot 
> package, do your './configure', then 'make' and then instead of doing 
> your normal 'make install', run 'checkinstall' which will create and 
> install an RPM package for you. That way, if you have problems with 
> the new package, you can remove it with the 'rpm -e' command. When you 
> need to upgrade the package, it will be a lot easier to let rpm do the 
> upgrade and keep track of the files.
>
>>
>> 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?
>
>
>
> In your case, I would recommend trying the checkinstall method above 
> first. If you really want to get rid of the dependencies, you can rpm 
> -e more than one package at a time:
>
>    rpm -e openssh openssh-server openssh-client netdump
>
> yum is also handy for this:
>
>    yum remove packagename
>
>
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Jean
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