For example, you are trying to uninstall pidgin. Both RPM and DEB package manager will remove that package and will ask/halt you if any other package is dependent on pidgin. So, you will have to either first remove packages dependent on pidgin and then pidgin or do them in same uninstall command.
But none of them will remove the packages which were installed for pidgin's dependency (on which pidgin is dependent and may be more others). You will have to find them and remove them manually. Cheers, Imtiaz On 10/29/07, Emon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody > > I am running openSUSE 10.3 with KDE desktop. > > I installed the "pidgin" pkg with YaST which in turn installed a couple > of more pkgs to resolve dependencies. > > My question is if I ever decide to uninstall "pidgin" how can I trace > those pkgs which were installed to resolve dependencies & uninstall > them?? either using YaST or from CLI. > > My second question is about rpm & deb packages & thus might be very > contentions so a little bit of history first as I don't intend to start > a flame war here....... > > this is how I started using linux & then moved on to different distros > > RH-7.3 -> RH-8 -> Slackware-9.1 -> Slackware-10 -> Slackware-10.1 -> > Slackware-10.2 -> Slackware-11 -> NovelSuse-10.1 -> openSUSE-10.2 -> > openSUSE-10.3 > > as you have probably noticed I have no exposure to Debian or any of it's > derivative distros, but recently I have been listening to a lot of noise > regarding .deb pkgs from different people, so I even gave Ubuntu-7.04 a > shot when it was released... but I had other problems.. > > 1)having shifted from M$-windows I have alway found KDE more appealing, > thus kind of dependent on it, so I didn't exactly try Ubuntu; rather > Kubuntu-7.04(DVD). > > 2) but I use applications which are sometimes very heavily dependent on > GNOME (pidgin, ekiga to name a few..). Sure many people suggested just > do "sudo apt-get foo" & everything will be fine, but I live in > Bangladesh & don't have broadband (internet is not a way of life here, > yet) and can't taken advantages of the facilities that modern package > managers offer may it be apt synaptic or YaST. > > So by now you guys know why I had to ditch Kubuntu & stick to a distro > which by default had good support for both KDE & GNOME.... > > coming back to pkg management... I hear from a friend that when you > uninstall a .deb pkg in Debian (or any of it's derivative distros) the > pkg manager also uninstalls the pkgs those were installed to resolve > dependencies... sound pretty neat... is it true?? if so is it possible > to achieve this on rpm based distros?? > > Hope I did not offend/hurt any body's feelings > Emon > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank mail to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
