Any way to reset swlist?

[Gregory Locke]

I have had to manually delete off perl from my Itanium. Unfortunately, swlist still shows it. Is there a way to delete those entries from swlist?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Gregory:

You manually removed the files but the IPD (Installed Product Database) still has a record and that's exactly what the SD (Software Distributer) tools like 'swlist' use for reporting! Shame!

Use 'swremove' to perform these functions.

Regards!

...JRF...

[mavrick]

Hi,

Invoke the swremove and this will list
the IPD list from this remove the perl package..

[Bob E Campbell]

The swremove option will probably work for you, but if you have installed anything that uses any of the same filenames as the original perl product those files would be removed. Use the command:

swlist -l file perl

to see what files are involved (replace perl with your versions product name). If this is an issue, you could wipe out the IPD data using the swmodify command:

swmodify -u perl

[Gregory Locke]

The issue was allowing dependent files to be partially removed as well.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Gregory:

> The issue was allowing dependent files to be partially removed as well.

...and if you look at my reponse in your ORIGINAL thread on this topic, you'll see I mentioned the issue of dependencies there:

https://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1128127

Regards!

...JRF...