Summary
When you install DSE via yum, a set of dependencies are also installed. If you wish to completely remove DSE from your system, these dependencies must also be removed.
Symptoms
The dependencies installed with DSE are not automatically removed with yum remove -y dse-full
Solution
The following commands will clean all of DSE's dependencies from a machine.
yum remove -y dse-full
yum remove -y dse-libpig
yum remove -y dse-demos
yum remove -y dse-libsolr
yum remove -y dse-libhadoop
yum remove -y dse-liblog4j
yum remove -y dse-libsqoop
yum remove -y dse-tomcat
yum remove -y dse-libtomcat
yum remove -y dse-libmahout
yum remove -y dse-libhive
yum remove -y dse-libcassandra
yum remove -y dse-libhadoop-native