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