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removing jre-6

edited Jan 30, 2013 11:50PM in SPARC Legacy servers (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered ✓
Hello, I need to install jre-7 in place of jre-6 due to an IAVA issued about Oracle no longer supporting jre-6.

That was easy; however, removing jre-6 remnants is not really that easy.

I have removed it from /usr/jdk/ but when running a Retina scan it still gets discovered and attempting to remove the package with pkg uninstall jre-6 I get the usual return about dependencies. Any one able to successfully remove jre-6 or know why it shouldn't be?

 pkg uninstall jre-6
Creating Planpkg uninstall: Cannot remove 'pkg://solaris/runtime/java/jre-6@1.6.0.35,5.11-0.175.0.11.0.4.0:20120831T233301Z' due to the following packages that depend on it:

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