Re: Psyche Upgrade.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 20:39, Chip Turner wrote:
> 
> Chris Kloiber <ckloiber@ckloiber.com> writes:
> 
> > I don't believe Psyche will arbitrarily remove installed software by
> > itself, but you can try this:
> > 
> > # rpm -qa | grep ximian  
> > 
> > to see what will go bye-bye, then:
> > 
> > # rpm -qa | grep ximian | xargs rpm -e --nodeps
> > 
> > To actually do the deed.
> 
> Ouch!
> 
> Dependencies are there for a reason.  I'd never try an upgrade with so
> many unsatisfied dependcies as that will doubtlessly create.  I
> believe red carpet has an uninstall mode, though.  Not certain.  I'd
> try that first.  Not having a gtk or glib results in a very broken
> system that, though it may limp through an upgrade, would doubtlessly
> be at least a little bit unhappy down the road.
> 
> Chip

I'm not thrilled about it either, but I assumed if he was doing an
upgrade install immediately after the forcible removal of all ximian
cruft anaconda would satisfy all the dependencies as needed using the
stock 8.0 packages.

-- 
Chris Kloiber





[Index of Archives]     [Fedora General Discussion]     [Red Hat General Discussion]     [Centos]     [Kernel]     [Red Hat Install]     [Red Hat Watch]     [Red Hat Development]     [Red Hat 9]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux