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doblerone

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Registered: 2011-12-08

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[SOLVED] remove installed package not listed by pacman

I have jupyter installed on my system:

➜   ~ sudo find / -name "jupyter"
[sudo] password for david: 
/run/user/1000/jupyter
/home/david/.local/share/jupyter
/home/david/.local/etc/jupyter
/home/david/.local/bin/jupyter
/usr/bin/jupyter
/usr/share/jupyter

And I would like to get rid of it because I'm using now virtualenvs. It seems that pacman can't find it:

➜   ~ sudo pacman -R jupyter
error: can't find package: jupyter

How to remove it?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by doblerone (2019-08-14 19:22:46)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] remove installed package not listed by pacman

Pacman didn't install it, so why would it be tracking it? Unintstall it the same way you installed it.

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doblerone

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Registered: 2011-12-08

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Re: [SOLVED] remove installed package not listed by pacman

Thanks for the fast reply.

It's a community package, that's why I thought it was installed via pacman.

pdc

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Re: [SOLVED] remove installed package not listed by pacman

Those files belong to other packages:

$ pkgfile /usr/bin/jupyter
community/python-jupyter_core
$ pkgfile -d /usr/share/jupyter/
community/jupyter-widgetsnbextension
community/jupyterlab
community/python-ipykernel
community/python2-ipykernel
community/sagemath-jupyter

doblerone

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Registered: 2011-12-08

Posts: 215

Re: [SOLVED] remove installed package not listed by pacman

Those files belong to other packages:

$ pkgfile /usr/bin/jupyter
community/python-jupyter_core
$ pkgfile -d /usr/share/jupyter/
community/jupyter-widgetsnbextension
community/jupyterlab
community/python-ipykernel
community/python2-ipykernel
community/sagemath-jupyter

I don't have any of those packages installed neither.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] remove installed package not listed by pacman

pacman -Qo /usr/bin/jupyter

If pacman is not tracking the file because it did not install it,  pacman can not remove it.
See also Pacman#Querying_package_databases and Tips_and_tricks#Identify_files_not_owned_by_any_package
Edit:
Have you ever used pip install without --user or make install on the system?

Last edited by loqs (2019-08-14 19:25:10)

doblerone

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Posts: 215

Re: [SOLVED] remove installed package not listed by pacman

Pacman -Qo /usr/bin/jupyter

If pacman is not tracking the file because it did not install it,  pacman can not remove it.
See also Pacman#Querying_package_databases and Tips_and_tricks#Identify_files_not_owned_by_any_package
Edit:
Have you ever used pip install without --user or make install on the system?

Aha, there it is! Installation could have been done via pip!

I'll marked it as solved.