# 'zypper remove' trying to uninstall extra packages **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Updates\ **Created:** [December 7, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-remove-trying-to-uninstall-extra-packages/35409 "2020-12-07T14:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SCFg4gyODe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@SCFg4gyODe](https://forums.suse.com/u/SCFg4gyODe)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-remove-trying-to-uninstall-extra-packages/35409/1 "2020-12-07T14:57:00Z")
I’m trying to manage updating a set of SLES12 hosts that don’t have access to the public internet. My tactics involve: - on a connected host, perform necessary updates, and retain all of the RPM packages. - copy all of the retained packages into directory, and use ‘createrpo’ to generate repository metadata in that directory. - copy that repository to a host to be updated, and add that repository for further transactions. In addition updates, I wish to remove unwanted packages. When I do so, ‘zypper remove’ goes out of it’s way to consider other packages for removal, it tries to remove packages that are needed by other installed packages. An example: 10-153-30-68:~ # zypper --no-gpg-checks --no-remote remove -D -y -r local\_update --no-clean-deps - python-pycryptodome Loading repository data… Warning: No repositories defined. Operating only with the installed resolvables. Nothing can be installed. Reading installed packages… Resolving package dependencies… Problem: This request will break your system! conflicting requests Solution 1: ignore the warning of a broken system (requires:glibc) Solution 2: keep glibc-2.22-109.2.x86\_64 Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c): c What confuses me: if the system has other installed packages that require glibc, why is this zypper operation implying I’m ‘requesting’ it’s removal? ---
**Author:** ![SCFg4gyODe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@SCFg4gyODe](https://forums.suse.com/u/SCFg4gyODe)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-remove-trying-to-uninstall-extra-packages/35409/2 "2020-12-08T18:00:39Z")
I’ve noted that I have a typo in that zypper command; it should be ‘–no-clean-deps – python-pycryptodome’; I’ll update when I have the chance to re-test.