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Old 06-28-2003, 11:15 PM   #1
gary.chan
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Question *** uninstalling with rpm ***


When I tried to uninstall mozilla with rpm -e , I get this error:
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error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
mozilla >= 0.9.2-10 is needed by nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-43
mozilla = 0.9.7 is needed by galeon-1.0.2-1
mozilla = 0.9.7-0 is needed by mozilla-psm-0.9.7-0
mozilla = 0.9.7-0 is needed by mozilla-dom-inspector-0.9.7-0
mozilla = 0.9.7-0 is needed by mozilla-mail-0.9.7-0
< output is truncated ....>
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Then I try to trace down the dependency and I get the following:
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rpm -e nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-43
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
nautilus-mozilla is needed by nautilus-1.0.4-43
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and then:
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rpm -e nautilus-1.0.4-43
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
nautilus = 1.0.4 is needed by nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-43
libnautilus.so.0 is needed by nautilus-mozilla-1.0.4-43
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You see! there is circular dependency: nautilus-mozilla depends on nautilus, which also depends on nautilus-mozilla.

I don't know to solve this.

In general, how do you remove a package that has circular dependency?

Is there a quicker to remove the whole package (in this case, mozilla) instead of removing them one by one?

Thank you,
Gary
 
Old 06-28-2003, 11:19 PM   #2
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"rpm -e nautilus & nautilus-mozilla"
 
Old 06-29-2003, 02:58 AM   #3
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"rpm -e nautilus & nautilus-mozilla"

no, that's wrong. the & symbol would imply that "nautilus-mozilla" is a seperate program, not a parameter to rpm...

"rpm -e nautilus nautilus-mozilla"
 
  


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