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I'm a little frustrated with pacman right now.
I downloaded gnome, thinking I wanted it. I don't. So I went to remove the two things I installed with pacman: gnome and gnome-extra. But I can't, because the other packages that came with them depend on others within gnome. I don't care, though - I want ALL of gnome removed. Short of manually removing each dependency tree, which takes FOREVER, how can I easily get rid of this plague on my system? pacman -Rs gnome doesn't work, and I don't know what else to do.
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I'm fairly positive pacman -Rc gnome should remove all of gnome and anything that depends on it.
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I think pacman -Rcs works pretty well too.
Just say yes
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to remove a pkg and its deps use pacman -Rs
(other combinations include. pacman -R[c,cc,n]s)
i don't remember if it acts on groups (i think taht's what teh `n' option does, i'm not sure), as for the `c' that removes the downloaded pkgs as well ...
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other tahn taht, only tip i got is try tro remove gnome (p -R gnome gnome-extra, etc) ..
and each time if it complaisn about deps. just add those pkgs to it as well#
so you'd have ..
pacman -Rns gnome gnome-extra gnome-terminal****
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to remove a pkg and its deps use pacman -Rs
(other combinations include. pacman -R[c,cc,n]s)i don't remember if it acts on groups (i think taht's what teh `n' option does, i'm not sure), as for the `c' that removes the downloaded pkgs as well ...
..............
other tahn taht, only tip i got is try tro remove gnome (p -R gnome gnome-extra, etc) ..
and each time if it complaisn about deps. just add those pkgs to it as well#
so you'd have ..pacman -Rns gnome gnome-extra gnome-terminal****
Eeeek! I suggest you read the pacman manpage again.
REMOVE OPTIONS
-c, --cascade
Remove all target packages, as well as all packages that depend
on one or more target packages. This operation is recursive.-k, --keep
Removes the database entry only. Leaves all files in place.-n, --nosave
Instructs pacman to ignore file backup designations. Normally,
when a file is removed from the system the database is checked
to see if the file should be renamed with a .pacsave extension.-s, --recursive
Remove each target specified including all dependencies, pro-
vided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B)
they were not explicitly installed by the user. This option is
analogous to a backwards --sync operation.
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