On 10/29/2007 04:28 PM, Imtiaz Rahi wrote: > > > 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. >
Thank for the info Imtiaz vhai & especially thanks lot for the 10.3 DVD > 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. > Humm... so you are saying it's the same with Debian pkg managers All right, so how do I remove the pkgs manually, wasn't there a command like rpm -qr doesn't seem to be working in my case, here is the situation *************************** [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qr -qr: missing argument [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qr pidgin rpm: arguments to --root (-r) must begin with a / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qr /pidgin rpm: no arguments given for query [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> whereis pidgin pidgin: /usr/bin/pidgin /usr/lib/pidgin /usr/bin/X11/pidgin /usr/share/man/man1/pidgin.1.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qr /user/bin/pidgin rpm: no arguments given for query [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> *************************** So... what am I doing wrong thanks Emon
