Forcefully removing software

[Marco Shaw_1]

HP-UX 11.23PA

Trying to remove a HPOvLcore package from my server.

I've tried setting this in sys.defaults:
swconfig.enforce_dependencies = false
swcopy.enforce_dependencies = false
swinstall.enforce_dependencies= false
swremove.enforce_dependencies = false
swverify.enforce_dependencies = false

But that doesn't seem to help. It has dependencies on other filesets. I'm not ready to try removing the others yet, but may have to if I'm forced.

Any other ideas? I tried using the GUI swremove, but the HPOvLcore package does not show up...

[Sean Dale]

You may want to look at the man page for the CLI version of swremove. It may have some options that will work for you.

[Dennis Handly]

>It has dependencies on other filesets.

Are you sure it isn't the reverse? If other products have dependencies on it, you have to remove them before or at the same time.

>I tried using the GUI swremove, but the HPOvLcore package does not show up...

If it doesn't show up, have you already removed it? What does the swlist or swlist HPOvLcore show?