Trouble Removing RPM's

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 18:21:58 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:10:22 -0500
>
> Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> > John would you please do a 'example' of using the command --allmatches I
>  > have never seen this used.
>
>  I posted one a few minutes ago.  Here it is again:
>
>
>  rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches gtk2
>
>
> > Also how would this affect the dependencies ?
>
>  The --nodeps will take care of that.  Actually it will break that, as it were,
>  but it'll be taken care of.

Well, it will ignore them. One might want to remove the packages that
are breaking as well.

John




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