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arboch

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Registered: 2020-09-04

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] No targets specified when trying to remove multilib packages?

When trying to remove all the multilib packages, the wiki stated that I had to perform the following command:

# pacman -R $(comm -12 <(pacman -Qq | sort) <(pacman -Slq multilib | sort))

However, this just tells me :

error: no targets specified (use -h for help)

(and nothing else).
It's obvious that this is occurring because the output of the 'comm' command isn't returning anything, but what could be the issue here?
(I will note that I have coreutils installed and so comm works, also the pacman commands on their own seem to work as well).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Last edited by arboch (2020-10-14 04:10:43)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] No targets specified when trying to remove multilib packages?

do you have anything installed from multilib?

arboch

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Registered: 2020-09-04

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] No targets specified when trying to remove multilib packages?

do you have anything installed from multilib?

Wow, that's really embarrassing. I guess I just assumed that I still had the packages installed but apparently I did something earlier to inadvertently uninstall them.
Case closed, thanks!!