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tuxman

Member

From: Ensenada Mexico

Registered: 2005-08-12

Posts: 51

force pacman -R?

hi, I have installed xfce4 to try it and now want to remove it.
when i try pacman -R xfce4 it complains about breaking a dependency for exo

[root@tuxman]# pacman -Rs --nosave xfce4
:: group xfce4:
    gtk-xfce-engine libxfce4mcs libxfce4util libxfcegui4 xfcalendar
    xfce-mcs-manager xfce-mcs-plugins xfce-utils xfce4-appfinder
    xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-iconbox xfce4-mixer xfce4-panel xfce4-session
    xfce4-systray xfce4-toys xfce4-trigger-launcher xfdesktop xffm xfprint
    xfwm4 xfwm4-themes
    Remove whole content? [Y/n] Y
error: this will break the following dependencies:
  libxfcegui4: is required by exo

how do I go about to remove xfce4 then?

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thanks

tuxman

paranoos

Member

From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: force pacman -R?

pacman -R removes a package
pacman -Rs removes a package, plus any others that it depends on that aren't needed by anything else
pacman -Rc removes a package, plus any others that depend on it.

edit:
i should mention that optimally, you would want to do pacman -Rsc, because that would get rid of the package, anything else that depends on it, and then for all those packages, get rid of any dependencies that are no longer needed.

tuxman

Member

From: Ensenada Mexico

Registered: 2005-08-12

Posts: 51

Re: force pacman -R?

thanks, that was FAST1

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thanks

tuxman