Contributing

Does RPM check for dependencies?

Does RPM check for dependencies?

It is a powerful command line package management system for installing uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating Linux computer software packages. However RPM has in build mechanism to tell you about dependencies. Just try to install package and it will give you list of dependencies.

What is RPM — Nodeps?

The –allmatches option tells the rpm command to remove all packages with names that match the names you pass on the command line. The –nodeps option tells the rpm command to skip the test of dependencies. Use this option when you really, really, want to uninstall a package.

How do I force an rpm to uninstall?

Uninstalling Using the RPM Installer

  1. Execute the following command to discover the name of the installed package: rpm -qa | grep Micro_Focus.
  2. Execute the following command to uninstall the product: rpm -e [ PackageName ]

How do I force rpm to delete?

How do I downgrade an rpm?

Install old rpm or downgrade rpm using rpm

  1. – h, –hash : Print 50 hash marks as the package archive is unpacked.
  2. – U, –upgrade : This upgrades or installs the package currently installed to a newer version.
  3. –oldpackage : Allow an upgrade to replace a newer package with an older one.

How do I download an RPM using yum?

Resolution

  1. Install the package including “downloadonly” plugin: (RHEL5) # yum install yum-downloadonly (RHEL6) # yum install yum-plugin-downloadonly.
  2. Run yum command with “–downloadonly” option as follows:
  3. Confirm the RPM files are available in the specified download directory.

How to remove a dependency from a rpm?

While doing rpm -e , the rpm command shows dependency list for the provided rpm. Now before attempting to remove rpm, yum will locate the dependency list of the dependency rpms i.e. for example anaconda-core is a dependency for pykickstart but then anaconda-tui is a dependency for anaconda-core. Hence the entire chain must be removed.

Can a rpm ignore all RPMs in a directory?

If you tell rpm to install all RPMs from some directory, then it does exactly this. rpm can not ignore RPMs listed for installation. You must manually remove the unneeded RPMs from the list (or directory). You can remove the old RPM and rpm will resolve the dependency with the newer version of the installed RPM.

Why do I get the failed dependencies error?

While installing or removing a rpm manually (without yum), you may get Failed dependencies error. It happens because a rpm requires certain pre-requisite rpms to be installed before installing the main rpm.

How to ignore conflicts in RPM installs in Linux?

You don’t want this normally. If you tell rpm to install all RPMs from some directory, then it does exactly this. rpm will not ignore RPMs listed for installation. You must manually remove the unneeded RPMs from the list (or directory). It will always overwrite the files with the “latest RPM installed” whichever order you do it in.