[CentOS] remove RPMs with cyclic dependancies.

[Peter Kjellström]

What has yet to be said clearly enough is that yum is far better att working 
with deps both when install and uninstall. The following will remove a 
package and all other packages that depend on the first (and so on):

yum remove PACKAGE

it will even ask you for yes/no when it has figured out what needs to be 
removed and displayed it in a nice list.

/Peter

On Thursday 04 August 2005 19.28, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> Okay, I tried installing OpenOffice beta, and I think I messed it up, so
> I wanted to uninstall it.
>
> I thought wilcards worked, so I tried:
> [root at localhost program]# rpm -e openoffice*
> error: package openoffice* is not installed
>
> Okay, so I couldn't figure out how to remove a bunch of RPM packages at
> once, so I did this:
> [root at localhost program]#  rpm -qa | grep openoffice
>
> And proceeded the labourous task of removing all of the RPMs listed one
> by one.
>
> But then I got down to some files that would say:
> rpm -e openofficeorg-core01-1.9.122-1.i586
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         openofficeorg-core01 is needed by (installed)
> openofficeorg-core08-1.9.122-1.i586
>
> So then I'd remove the dependancy, and guess what?:
> rpm -e openofficeorg-core08-1.9.122-1.i586
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         openofficeorg-core01 is needed by (installed)
> openofficeorg-core01-1.9.122-1.i586
>
> The two packages are dependant on each other so I can't remove either.
> *sigh*
> So, how do I remove them?
>
> Dave

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  Peter Kjellström               |
  National Supercomputer Centre  |
  Sweden                         | http://www.nsc.liu.se
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