Canna server

[Christophe Gaubert]

Le Vendredi 19 Mars 2004 19:53, Rick Stevens a écrit :
> Christophe GAUBERT wrote:
> >>Christophe GAUBERT wrote:
> >>>>Christophe GAUBERT wrote:
> >>>>>Hi every one
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I have recently noticed that I have a Canna server running. After a
> >>>>> little search on the web, it seems that it has something to do with
> >>>>> japanese characters. I don't understand  when this application had
> >>>>> been added ! The last packages I have added are XEmacs and Xfig. Do
> >>>>> you think that Canna server is a dependance of those packages ? Is
> >>>>> there a way to know this ?
> >>>>
> >>>>The dependency tree says that only xemacs requires canna, but I don't
> >>>>think it truly does.  Just shut down canna if you don't want it
> >>>> running. You could probably just "rpm -e --nodeps" Canna and deal with
> >>>> the consequences (which won't be much unless you use xemacs to enter
> >>>> Japanese data).
> >>>
> >>>Thank you. I will try this tonight. But how do you know the dependency
> >>> tree ?
> >>
> >>You need the names of the canna RPMs first.  I happen to know that
> >>the main one is called "Canna", but you can:
> >>
> >>	# rpm -qa | grep anna
> >>
> >>to get the names of the canna RPMs.  Once you have the main one:
> >>
> >>	# rpm -q --whatrequires name-of-RPM
> >>
> >>In this case:
> >>
> >>	[root at prophead root]# rpm -q --whatrequires Canna
> >>	xemacs-21.4.12-6
> >>
> >>on my Red Hat 9 system.
> >
> > Again, thank you ! The next time, I will read the manual before posting
> > ;-)
>
> Aw, we won't beat you up....yet!  :-D

It works very well. The only thing to note : XEmacs *really* requires 
Canna-libs (it can't be start without it). Thus I have only erased the main 
Canna RPM (more exactly, I have re-installed Canna-libs ;-)

Thanks, Rick
Christophe