is there a way to uninstall X without reformattting on redhat 9. i tried rpm -e but it has lots of dependiencies.

"is there a way to uninstall X without reformattting on redhat 9. i tried rpm -e but it has lots of dependiencies."

You can use:
rpm --nodeps -e

Presumably you have a plan on what to do next.

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yeah but is there a way to uninstall all the xfree stuff at one time, im running a server and i dotn want x on there anymore

"yeah but is there a way to uninstall all the xfree stuff at one time, im running a server and i dotn want x on there anymore"

If you are going to get rid of XFree86 then you might as well get rid of the packages that depend on XFree86 because those packages will not work once X Window is removed. I do not know of a command to get rid of a package and its dependencies in one command. The way that I would do it is to try to remove XFree86. It will refuse because of dependencies. Remove the dependencies with rpm -e. Some will uninstall and others will refuse because of other dependencies. Keep uninstalling until XFree86 will finally uninstall. Everything that you uninstall should be dependent on XFree86 and you will not lose anything that would still be usable after XFree86 is gone.

I don't know of a single magic command that will take out XFree86 and its dependencies all in a single command.

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i'm investigating how to unistall x as well, the

--nodeps argument should revela clues