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eljoeb

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Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 37

Stupid Question: Deleting/Removing Packages Installed via AUR

Alright, sorry about the stupid question, but I'm having trouble finding the proper way to do this and don't want to screw something up.  Recently I installed some packages via the AUR which either don't work for me (lastfm) or I don't want (Spring, among other games).  What would be the correct way of removing this stuff?  Would simply deleting the file in /usr/bin, its installation directory, the directory in /var/abs, and the menu shortcut (trivial, sorry) be an acceptable way to uninstall this, or is there a way to do this through pacman (considering that's partly how they were installed in the first place)?  I just don't want to miss anything, as I want to get a newer version of Spring and not have any issues.

Thanks and sorry if this question is redundant I swear I looked for an answer before.

Joeb

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Stupid Question: Deleting/Removing Packages Installed via AUR

Remove them with pacman like you would do for any other packages.

Ramses de Norre

Member

From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Stupid Question: Deleting/Removing Packages Installed via AUR

You should have installed them with pacman and you can just remove them like every other package then, that's the simplicity of AUR

eljoeb

Member

Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 37

Re: Stupid Question: Deleting/Removing Packages Installed via AUR

Thanks for the responses!  i had thought of this intuitively at first, but I thought I would need to go to the directory where the package is and type pacman -R pkgname.pkg.tar.gz.  Lets just say that... didn't work .