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I already understand I would have do do without the tremendously great fantastic benifits of apper itself, but I still would like to uninstall it if doing so won't break something else.

Short of trying it to find out, how might I find out what if anything else would change/break by uninstalling?

We had been using Mandriva 2010 at work until just now, it did not have apper - we changed to Mageia 3 and I would like to not have package management more redily available for the users to want to mess with. Does this make sense?

Plus, I still love everything about MCC and don't want to start spreading management all over the freaking place.

Thanks for any help and replies.

In a root terminal

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urpme --test apper

should tell you what else, if anything, would be removed

and if you want to remove just the apper package

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rpm -e --nodeps apper

Jim

Should be this,or you can just remove it with it won't breake anything,it's not installed with classical dvd kde install.

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urpmq --whatrequires apper
apper
apper


urpme apper

jkerr82508 wrote:In a root terminal

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urpme --test apper

should tell you what else, if anything, would be removed

and if you want to remove just the apper package

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rpm -e --nodeps apper

Jim

It's not a good idea to use rpm nodeps option it will breake something sooner or later.

The package was erased without a peep. Whether the blather package will work properly is another matter. In general, it's not a good idea to use --nodeps to get around dependency problems. The package builders included the dependency requirements for a reason, and it's best not to second-guess them.

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-erase ... tions.html

Thanks all for the replies and help. I may try some of this just for learning purposes, but 2 days after I posted the boss told me we are going to go all Microsoft.

I waited a little while till I was of cooler mind to post, so I wouldn't rant on y'all about thier decision.

Thanks again,

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks