Issue removing kde

arfett · 2008-04-26 15:15:03

Hi, I'm a new Linux user, having never installed Linux or used it up until a few days ago. Seems pretty simple and I'm picking it up quickly, but I'm having trouble getting rid of the KDE GUI. I've removed it from the daemons portion of rc.conf and I've commented it in the xinitrc file so that when I boot I'm just at the prompt and after logging into root I type in pacman -Rsn kde (also tried -R & -Rs) and it tells me:
"error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: libkipi: requires kdelibs"
What exactly am I doing wrong here? Must I skip dependancy checks or do -c to remove the offending packages that rely on kde?

Thanks for any assistance

bgc1954 · 2008-04-26 15:24:07

Yep, pacman -Rcs should remove all with dependencies. If that doesn't work you'll have to remove the libkipi first.

arfett · 2008-04-26 15:27:13

I'm slightly confused. The last thing I installed was KDE so I'm not understanding why there's something relying on KDE in the first place. If it was working just fine without KDE then why does it suddenly rely on it?

bgc1954 · 2008-04-26 15:36:49

Might be some odd glitch in pacman but I haven't run across this type of thing since i've not used kde in arch for a long, long time. I installed and uninstalled kdemod not so long ago with no problems but that's a customized form of kde so probably not relevant.

Edit: you sure you didn't install digikam or gwenview before kde as far as I can see kipi is image plugins mostly for kde. Who knows?

Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-04-26 15:41:57)

miggols99 · 2008-04-26 18:23:34

Simple as

pacman -Rsc kdelibs

Arch Linux

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Issue removing kde

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