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Old 04-09-2015, 05:52 AM   #1
thomas2004ch
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[YUM] Remove a package without removing it's father?


Hi,

I have a package A, which is depended from package B. Now I want to remove the package B. I was told the package A will be removed as well. But this is not what I want.

How can I just remove the package B?
 
Old 04-09-2015, 06:33 AM   #2
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I have a package A, which is depended from package B. Now I want to remove the package B. I was told the package A will be removed as well. But this is not what I want.
As it said A is dependent on package B, so if you will remove package B then A will be useless without that. It is something like you are cutting legs of a chair and still want seating space of the chair to remain high.

Technically it is possible but not sure what it will screw up on the system. You can use --force with rpm to remove package B. Example:

Code:
rpm -e --force <package B>
The reason it is complaining about dependency is to make sure that system integrity is intact.
 
Old 04-09-2015, 06:38 AM   #3
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I try your command, but I got following:
Code:
# rpm -e --force guava-libraries
rpm: only installation, upgrading, rmsource and rmspec may be forced
 
Old 04-09-2015, 06:40 AM   #4
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Sorry my mistake, try:

Code:
rpm -e --nodeps guava-libraries
 
  


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