On Sunday 22 December 2002 10:40 am, Steven Adams wrote: > On Sunday 22 December 2002 06:56 am, you wrote: > > When installing SLES7 and having picked a configuration. If a package is > > de-selected from that configuration a dependencies dialog will come up > > indicating that other packages depend on it. How does one go about > > determining which package(s) depend upon a deleted package? The F2 > > (info) screen is no help, it just tells me what I already know. > > Hey Rich, > > From a telnet or ssh session you can use "rpm -qaR | grep <<package>>" to > search all entries in the package database and diaplay their dependencies. > Forgoing the "grep <<package>>" will list all installed packages that the > RPM database knows about. > > Hope that helps, > > Steve
Rich, This is not correct and will not return the expected information. You can, however, use "rpm -qR <<packagename>>" reliably. Using "rpm -qa" will return a list of all package names known to the RPM database. Sorry for the original misinformation, Steve
