[CentOS] remove RPMs with cyclic dependancies.

[William (Bill) E. T.]

This is a really dumb idea but I would try 

rpm -e  openofficeorg-core01-1.9.122-1.i586 openofficeorg-core01

Thanks,
Bill

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 02:28 +0900, 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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