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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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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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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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-r is not the right switch. Read 'man pacman'.
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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!
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Last edited by whatshisname (2017-04-25 16:50:44)
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