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#1 2017-04-25 16:03:34

whatshisname
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Registered: 2010-04-24
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Problems removing gstreamer0.10

So gstreamer0.10 is no longer being maintained.  It's existence is preventing me updating my system.  I'm trying to remove everything associated with it: base; good, bad and ugly plugins.

So, for example:

$> yaourt -r gstreamer0.10-0.10.36-16
        error: failed to initialize alpm library
        (could not find or read directory: gstreamer0.10-0.10.36-16/var/lib/pacman/)

The error indicates yaourt is looking for the gstreamer0.10-0.10.36-16 folder in:   gstreamer0.10-0.10.36-16/var/lib/pacman/

when it in fact resides in:

/var/lib/pacman/gstreamer0.10-0.10.36-16

I suspect this is my problem.  But how do I tell yaourt to look in the correct folder for the gstreamer files?

Thanks.

Last edited by whatshisname (2017-04-25 16:38:56)

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#2 2017-04-25 16:07:15

Scimmia
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Re: Problems removing gstreamer0.10

First things first: use pacman

Edit: and get rid of the version info, that's not part of the package name.

Last edited by Scimmia (2017-04-25 16:08:03)

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#3 2017-04-25 16:38:14

whatshisname
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Registered: 2010-04-24
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Re: Problems removing gstreamer0.10

Yes.  Tried that, too.  The pattern for the error is always the same with the package name I'm trying to remove being prepended to the path:

$>sudo pacman -r gstreamer
error: failed to initialize alpm library
(could not find or read directory: gstreamer/var/lib/pacman/)
&>sudo pacman -r gstreamer0
error: failed to initialize alpm library
(could not find or read directory: gstreamer0/var/lib/pacman/)

Thanks for the quick reply.

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#4 2017-04-25 16:40:10

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Re: Problems removing gstreamer0.10

-r is not the right switch. Read 'man pacman'.


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#5 2017-04-25 16:42:56

whatshisname
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Registered: 2010-04-24
Posts: 162

Re: Problems removing gstreamer0.10

Arrgghh!!  Of course!  Bonehead mistake!

I've been deleting a lot of folders and sub-folders lately and had "rm -r" on my mind, I guess. :-)

OK.  Past the error, now on to making things work.

Sorry, y'all!  This one was stupidly stupid!

Ducking and hiding now.

Last edited by whatshisname (2017-04-25 16:50:44)

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#6 2017-04-25 16:44:21

ayekat
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Registered: 2011-01-17
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Re: Problems removing gstreamer0.10

Also, the package is named gstreamer0.10 - the first dash separates the package name from the version number (0.10.36), the second dash separates the package release (16) from the version number.
It's a bit irritating in this case.


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