If you’ve been wondering how to delete a package you mistakenly installed (or which is no longer needed) along with all its dependencies, here’s a neat way to achieve just that.

The idea is that whenever you use yum to perform some operation on packages, a transaction is created. If you installed a package along with its dependencies, then you can undo just that by undoing that transaction.

If you want to know on which CD is a package, without :

1. Mounting CD
2. Searching
3. Unmounting
4. Swear and
5. Go back to 1

Then you can :

1. Mount CD #1 (mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/ /mnt or, if you have automount cd /cdrom/cdrom0 or something like that)
2. Go in the Solaris_10/Product directory of the CD
3. Do grep -l .virtual_packagetoc_* which will output the .virtual_packagetoc_N where N is the number of the CD holding that package.

Exemple :