SDB:How to remove ZMD in openSUSE 10.2

From openSUSE

Situation

Whenever you are not satisfied with ZMD (ZENworks Management Daemon) as your package manager, you can easily remove it and use opensuseupdater instead.

Procedure

Open any terminal program (ie. Konsole or Gnome Terminal), then switch to 'root' user by using command:

su -

Next step is to stop ZMD service, just execute this command:

rczmd stop

If that didn't work, then you are probably going to have to use

ps x | grep zmd

to discover the Process ID, then

kill -9 PID

( PID being replaced with 3580, or something like that, the Process ID of the running instance of the thing on your current system/session )

Finally we can remove ZMD from our system by using this command:

rpm -e zmd libzypp-zmd-backend sqlite-zmd rug zen-updater

• I had to add 'zmd-inventory' to the above list of rpms due to dependencies. -ryjohnson 7Aug07

After you will reboot your system you should easily notice changed 'Software Updater' icon in your system tray. Since now instead of ZEN Updater you will operate with opensuseupdater.