Leslie H Wood wrote: > Seems to be a slight problem with the 3b instructions below. The pkg > issue of not letting you override it, I have hit more than once since > OpenSolaris pkg or pkgadd -A will not give me a veto. > > root at motie:/var/tmp# more /etc/release > OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86 > Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > Use is subject to license terms. > Assembled 19 November 2008 > > root at motie:/var/tmp# pkg uninstall SUNWfirefox > Creating Plan /pkg: Cannot remove > 'pkg:/SUNWfirefox at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T220640Z' due to > the following packages that depend on it: > pkg:/slim_install at 0.1,5.11-0.101:20081119T235636Z > pkg:/SUNWgnome-help-viewer at 0.5.11,5.11-0.101:20081119T221715Z
bug "2775 pkg reinstall" ...covers the enhancement that resolves this case. However, I believe you could workaround this for now by doing the following: pfexec pkg uninstall slim_install SUNWgnome-help-viewer pfexec pkg uninstall SUNWfirefox pfexec pkg install SUNWfirefox pfexec pkg install SUNWgnome-help-viewer Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
