Package dependency question (on SuSE-10.2)

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Monday 19 February 2007 03:50, Emon wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Here is my dilemma; I installed ekiga, which also installed about a
> dozen pkgs to resolve dependencies...
>
> But ekiga is not working... it tries to show a wizard but for some
> reason just hangs [1]
>
> Now I want to uninstall ekiga as well as the dozen pkgs it installed;
> is that possible??? if so... please tell me how.

    To identify the libraries, you might try searching by installation 
time.  The libraries were installed right after ekiga.  If you still 
have ekiga, that will tell you when to look.

	rpm -q -a --last | grep ekiga

    That will give you something like:

ekiga-1.0.9-9.1                       Sat 22 Oct 2005 11:43:55 AM EDT

    Now look for the rpms installed slightly thereafter:

	rpm -q -a --last | grep "22 Oct 2005 11"

    If you already removed ekiga, you might try to remember at least the 
day of installation as a start.

    It might be prudent to run "rpm -q --whatrequires <library-name>" 
before removing the package.  If nothing but ekiga uses it, it can be 
safely deleted (I think).

Jim Kuzdrall