How to Remove Patches From Your System

You can remove only one patch at a time.

If your system has more than one boot environment, you can use the luupgrade command to remove a list of patches from an inactive boot environment. See How to Use luupgrade to Apply a List of Patches to an Inactive Boot Environment.

Steps

1. Identify the patch that you want to remove.

2. Become an appropriately authorized user or assume a role that includes the Software Installation profile or the solaris.admin.patchmgr.* authorization.

   The System Administrator profile includes the appropriate profiles. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

3. Remove the patch from your system.

   # smpatch remove -i patch-id