Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 11/7/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Isn't there a way to see what depends on something before I -e it? I
just did a man rpm but didn't see an option for checking. How is that
done?
A simple way of doing this is just to run the "rpm -e" as a non-root
user. If there are dependency issues, rpm will tell you. If not, the
remove will fail because you're not root.
Paul.
Nice trick. I take it that this means that I cannot -e it?
[dotancohen@localhost ~]$ rpm -e dbus-qt
error: Failed dependencies:
libdbus-qt-1.so.1 is needed by (installed) k3b-0.12.5-1.0.fc4.kde.i386
dbus-qt = 0.33-3.1.fc4.kde is needed by (installed)
dbus-devel-0.33-3.1.fc4.kde.i386
[dotancohen@localhost ~]$ rpm -e dbus-devel
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
Yes, that's rpm not working as a not-root user.
[dotancohen@localhost ~]$ rpm -e libdbus-qt
error: package libdbus-qt is not installed
libdbus-qt-1.so.1 is something that is "provided" by dbus-qt and
required by (installed) k3b. To remove libdbus-qt-1.so.1, you would have
to remove the package that provides it:
$ rpm -q --whatprovides libdbus-qt-1.so.1
dbus-qt-0.33-3.1.fc4.kde
Paul.
