Hi

Im using RH enterprise Linux 4 and i installed php during system installation (by default) now i want to remove that version. But I have no experience in removing/uninstalling a software from a linux system. So can any body please tel me clearly how to uninstall existing php(php-4.3.9-3.6) from the system.

Thanx in advance !

Buddhike G

To remove a package type: rpm -e (package name). There is no need to remove the older package if you are adding a newer version. Simply type: rpm -Uvh (package name) to upgrade your older version to the newer version.

Thanx for the reply.

I typed the following command to get the existing version of php

rpm -qa |grep php

Is it correct ?

that command gave the following result

php-4.3.9-3.6
php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.6
php-mysql-4.3.9-3.6
php-odbc-4.3.9-3.6
php-pear-4.3.9-3.6
php-ldap-4.3.9-3.6


I tried to remove it using rpm -e php-4.3.9-3.6
but it gave the following error message.

error: Failed dependencies:
php = 4.3.9-3.6 is needed by (installed) php-ldap-4.3.9-3.6.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.6 is needed by (installed) php-mysql-4.3.9-3.6.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.6 is needed by (installed) php-odbc-4.3.9-3.6.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.6 is needed by (installed) php-pear-4.3.9-3.6.i386
php = 4.3.9-3.6 is needed by (installed) php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.6.i386


so i used following commands to remove dependencies

[root@localhost etc]# rpm -e php-ldap-4.3.9-3.6
[root@localhost etc]# rpm -e php-mysql-4.3.9-3.6
[root@localhost etc]# rpm -e php-odbc-4.3.9-3.6
[root@localhost etc]# rpm -e php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.6
[root@localhost etc]# rpm -e php-pear-4.3.9-3.6

but the last one gave the following error;

error: Failed dependencies:
php-pear is needed by (installed) php-4.3.9-3.6.i386


so i tried following but faild


[root@localhost etc]# rpm -e php-4.3.9-3.6.i386
error: Failed dependencies:
php = 4.3.9-3.6 is needed by (installed) php-pear-4.3.9-3.6.i386
[root@localhost etc]# rpm -e php-pear-4.3.9-3.6.i386
error: Failed dependencies:
php-pear is needed by (installed) php-4.3.9-3.6.i386

It seems to be recursive.


Any suggestions.

Buddhike G.

Try

Yes It workd !

Thanx a lot !

Buddhike G.