[Discuss] How to permanently remove Linux package from installation

[edwardp at linuxmail.org (edwardp at linuxmail.org)]

Upon running dnf to install openbox on another system, it wants to install:

giflib
imlib2
openbox
openbox-libs
python2-pyxdg

giflib, like openbox (and -libs), was not built for Fedora 25. I will 
check the system in question to see if any of these other packages are 
installed, then remove them if present. That (I hope) will take care of 
this issue.




On 02/04/2017 06:20 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Perhaps openbox requires cinnamon and nothing else does? The dnf would 
> consider it a non-necessary package and remove it.  You can remove it 
> and then re-install?
>
> -derek
>
> Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: edwardp at linuxmail.org
> To: <discuss at blu.org>
> Subject: [Discuss] How to permanently remove Linux package from 
> installation
> Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2017 6:17 PM
>
> It wants to remove openbox, along with 15 other packages.
>
> Cinnamon apparently doesn't require it, as I have that also installed
> on a laptop (although 32-bit) and openbox is not installed on it.
>
> Removing:
>   arc-theme                noarch    20161119-3.fc25      @updates         2.3 M
>   cinnamon                 x86_64    3.2.8-9.fc25         @updates         7.6 M
>   cinnamon-session         x86_64    3.2.0-1.fc25         @updates         989 k
>   imsettings-cinnamon      x86_64    1.7.2-1.fc25         @@commandline    517 k
>   mint-x-icons             noarch    1.4.0-2.fc25         @updates          95 M
>   mint-y-icons             noarch    1.0.4-1.fc25         @updates          17 M
>   openbox                  x86_64    3.6.1-2.fc24         @fedora          995 k
>   python-beautifulsoup4    noarch    4.5.3-1.fc25         @updates         741 k
>   python-html5lib          noarch    1:0.999-9.fc25       @@commandline    1.2 M
>   python2-cssselect        noarch    0.9.2-1.fc25         @@commandline    158 k
>   python2-inotify          noarch    0.9.6-6.fc25         @@commandline    264 k
>   python2-lxml             x86_64    3.7.2-1.fc25         @updates         3.4 M
>   tint2                    x86_64    0.12.12-1.fc25       @@commandline    1.2 M
>   xawtv                    x86_64    3.103-8.fc24         @fedora          2.0 M
>   xorg-x11-fonts-misc      noarch    7.5-16.fc24          @fedora          6.8 M
>   zvbi                     x86_64    0.2.35-1.fc24        @fedora          1.3 M
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 18:10:31 -0500
> "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
> > What happens when you "dnf erase .." the package?
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
> >
> > ----- Reply message -----
> > From: edwardp at linuxmail.org
> > To: <discuss at blu.org>
> > Subject: [Discuss] How to permanently remove Linux package from
> > installation Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2017 5:55 PM
> >
> > Under Fedora, I previously tried out the LXDE desktop, then
> > subsequently removed it. One of the packages it used, openbox,
> > remained on the system and repeated attempts to remove this package,
> > have not resulted in its permanent removal. I should note that
> > openbox was never built for Fedora 25 and dnf installs the Fedora 24
> > package.
> >
> > I located a couple of other LXDE-related packages that had remained on
> > the system, once removed along with openbox, the package was not
> > installed again through subsequent system updates. However today,
> > openbox again became listed and dnf installed it again.
> >
> > Is there a Linux command of some sort that will display the
> > dependencies of a particular package? I would like to find out exactly
> > what openbox requires and if no other installed package(s) requires
> > the same, the intent is to remove them along with openbox.
> >
> > Thank you.
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