OK, so I have Fedora running on my main machine (the default GNOME install), more on that later. First I need to understand some basic principles of Yum.
I have Firefox and everything is dandy. I wanted to watch a YouTube clip so I installed gnash-plugin.
Then I wanted to remove it because it wasn’t performing particularly well, but I want to also remove dependencies it has pulled in, leaving my system in the same pristine state it was in before I installed it.
So how do you do this?
I installed the package gnash-plugin with the command:
sudo yum install gnash-plugin
This pulled down three dependencies: agg, boost and gnash itself.
What’s the correct way to remove gnash-plugin and all the dependencies?
If I run:
sudo yum remove gnash-plugin
Then it wants to only remove the gnash-plugin package itself, leaving all the dependencies. Fair enough.
If I run:
sudo yum remove gnash
Then it only wants to remove the gnash-plugin dependency and leaves the rest. Also probably fair enough.
If I run:
sudo yum remove --remove-leaves gnash-plugin
Then it wants to remove all the dependencies plus some others which were not brought in by gnash-plugin like Firefox.
I don’t want to remove Firefox!
Help?
-c
Make The Move