Removing an RPM for Oracle Install

Question

Hi,
I need to know how to remove a specific RPM. I am running Oracle on RHEL 4.
When the Oracle install does the checks it fails on one of the RPM's. Here is what I did:
[root@vtl-oracle logs]# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} (%{ARCH})\n" | grep elfutils-libelf
elfutils-libelf-0.97.1-4 (x86_64)
elfutils-libelf-0.97.1-4 (i386) - - I need to remove this one because I am running a 64bit and Oracle Install keeps picking it up.
elfutils-libelf-devel-0.97.1-4 (x86_64)
when I issue the following command I get the statement:
[root@vtl-oracle logs]# rpm -e elfutils-libelf-0.97.1-4.i386
error: Failed dependencies:
libelf.so.1 is needed by (installed) elfutils-0.97.1-4.i386
libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.0) is needed by (installed) elfutils-0.97.1-4.i386
libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.1) is needed by (installed) elfutils-0.97.1-4.i386
I only want the 64 bit ones, not the i386 ones.

Answer 1

If you truly mean swap (and not /tmp), you have to be root to create a new swap partition (or swapfile) and then add it in with swapon -a
Are you sure that you REALLY want to get rid of the elf package? I did an Oracle 10g install on RHEL4 about a month ago, and there were 32-bit libraries that it had to have alongside the 64-bit ones.
You could force the removal, but I don't recommend it, using nodeps or force (I think it's this, haven't tried it in a while).