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Archie_Enthusiasm

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Registered: 2010-10-23

Posts: 99

[SOLVED]sudo pacman -R NameOfApplication...

Whenever I install an app from the repo, I just type
sudo pacman -S theApplication,
Then it downloads the application, checks the integrity of the downloads and install the application.

Whenever I remove an app, I just type
sudo pacman -R theApplication
Then it just removes the applications.

But whenever I want to install the removed app again after a while by doing sudo pacman -S the Application,

it does not download the application but directly starts installing this. This means that the application is somewhere on the hard drive. Therefore I want to know how I can remove an app completely. => next time when I want to install the app again, it should download it again, check the integrity and install it.

How can I do it pro App individually? What I do now is I just sudo pacman -Syu => It then updates the complete system. After this the downloaded but deinstalled app is really gone.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Archie_Enthusiasm (2010-12-21 22:35:40)

Foucault

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 214

Re: [SOLVED]sudo pacman -R NameOfApplication...

pacman -Sc will remove any uninstalled packages from the cache (/var/cache/pacman/pkg). I'm not entirely sure if it removes older versions of upgraded packages though (I guess it should). pacman -Scc will remove all packages from the package cache.

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teh

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From: Tijuana, Mexico

Registered: 2009-07-07

Posts: 374

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Re: [SOLVED]sudo pacman -R NameOfApplication...

pacman -Rns to remove dependencies and backup files https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … g_packages
pacman -Scc te clean cache.

Read the wiki.

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arst

linux-ka

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From: ADL

Registered: 2010-05-07

Posts: 232

Re: [SOLVED]sudo pacman -R NameOfApplication...

It just installs the still existing pkg file on your hard drive. Feel free to delete it from /var/cache/pacman/pkg. Else use ABS, this will always download a new source tarball.

Or...

man pacman

With -Sc you can remove unused packages...

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: [SOLVED]sudo pacman -R NameOfApplication...

As has been pointed out: please read man pacman or the wiki before posting here.

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