Thanks, Steve, that tells me what I want to know. On Sunday 22 December 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote: > 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
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