swremove vs swlist

[Robert Tackett_3]

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.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[baiju_3]

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.

[Arunvijai_4]

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

-Arun

[Robert Tackett_3]

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