Need help using rpm

thorney · 11-24-2005, 06:53 PM

Hi,

I want to remove gcc 4 completely from my FC4 system but when I use rpm to do so there are a bunch of dependency problems so my question is this: is there a way to remove gcc and all the packages that depend on it with one command?

thanks

/var/spool · 11-24-2005, 07:13 PM

yum remove gcc

thorney · 11-24-2005, 07:30 PM

Very sweet

thanks

/var/spool · 11-24-2005, 07:54 PM

yum beats the hell out of doing it manually.

shukla_chanchal · 11-25-2005, 05:05 AM

if u have dependency then u have to insure that if the dependency is vital or not

what u can do is that just check the dependency by commands

actually after deleting GCC u will get some problem

ethics · 11-25-2005, 05:35 AM

Yum only removes the package if it installed it i believe (at least it does for me)

you can uninstall RPMs with

Code:

rpm -e foo (the application name, not the package filename with issue/version)

This won't handle it's dependencies like yum does though

Infact this is a good quick reference for RPM commands http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap3sec20.html

No idea what the rest of the book contains, could prove useful too (who doesnt want to optimise and secue their box?

)

I pressume you are removing GCC to install an older version, or it is borked?