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On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:05 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:48 -0400, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 20:40 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > On 4/8/06, Jeffrey D. Yuille <<A HREF="mailto:jeffy5@optonline.net">jeffy5@optonline.net</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > > Does anyone know the command for checking dependencies of a program before</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > > deleting it? I didn't realize that after deleting a program (in this case,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > > wpa_supplicant), other critical programs would be deleted as well.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > > Fortunately, I was able to replace those dependencies but would prefer to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > > avoid this problem in the future.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > Yum offers you the option of not removing anything after having listed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > all dependencies.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > p</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> > </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> How do I activate this option? </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">What Paul means, is that if you run "yum install package", yum will</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">automatically list what package(s) need to be installed to get this</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">package installed (which automatically includes it's dependencies). It</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">will "ask" you to hit "y or n" to either install or not install the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">packages. This is the default behaviour of yum. As root, try it out as</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">an example and you will see for yourself. You can remove stuff through</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">yum as well "yum remove pacakge". man yum for more details.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-- </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Mike Chambers</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Madisonville, KY</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">"It's only funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious!"</FONT>
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Thanks Mike, <BR>
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I guess I am always in the habit of using the "yes" option whenever I install packages in YUM. I'll have to be more careful whenever I decide to delete something.
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