Hands-off (non-interactive) Solaris package removal - example using old Gnome packages.

Having to answer lots of yes/no questions on package dependencies is a pain when doing Solaris package administration; so here is a quick how-to on how to avoid the questions. First create /tmp/noask with the following contents (edited copy of /var/sadm/install/admin/default):

mail=
instance=unique
partial=nocheck
runlevel=nocheck
idepend=nocheck
rdepend=nocheck
space=nocheck
setuid=nocheck
conflict=nocheck
action=nocheck
basedir=default

Then execute something like this to remove the old Gnome packages before installing the new Sun supported 2.0 version (remove-gnome from the 2.0 beta script failed for me):

for p in `pkginfo | grep -i gnome | sort | awk '{print $2}'`
do
  pkgrm -n -a /tmp/noask $p
done