topic Re: swremove vs swlist in Operating System - HP-UX

swremove vs swlist

Robert Tackett_3 — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:22:57 GMT

I am attempting to remove NS-commicator from a server running HPUX 11i. When I execute swremove the product does not appear in the available list, however when I run swlist the product does appear!

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: swremove vs swlist

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:28:36 GMT

The problem, I think, is just how swremove views things by default.

Go ahead and bring up swremove.

Now go to the "View" menu and go down to "Change Software View" and select "Start with Products".

This should then list all individual products on your system. See if you can see Communicator now. If so, select and remove.

Re: swremove vs swlist

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:30:07 GMT

You should be able to take the output from

swlist -l product

and input it to swremove and the product should remove unless there are dependentcy issues.

There should be none in this case.

SEP

Re: swremove vs swlist

baiju_3 — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:44:53 GMT

First check the installed product by

swlist |grep -i NS-commicator .

then do swremove

swremove -x mount_all_filesystems=false -x autoboot=false PRODUCT

Where product is the product ID as listed in the first column of swlist command.

Thanks,
BL.

Re: swremove vs swlist

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:53:44 GMT

NS Communicator may be a part of a bundle which contains many products. You need to specify # swremove .

-Arun

Re: swremove vs swlist

Robert Tackett_3 — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:14:26 GMT

Thank you all for your input. Thanks to Patrick for his input and that did solve my swremove problem.