Removing pacages with Pacman

ftornell · 2008-08-21 07:33:31

Hi,
Installed gnome last night and tried it out for a while and then I switched back to Openbox.

When I tried to pacman -R gnome it had like 3 packages that were depended on gnome. And those pacages were depended on other packages and so on. It took me like 15 mins to remove 30-40 packages manually.

Is there any smart switch for this? Didn't find any on the Wiki.

wonder · 2008-08-21 07:34:36

pacman -Rnsc gnome

bangkok_manouel · 2008-08-21 07:36:27

ftornell wrote:

Hi,
Installed gnome last night and tried it out for a while and then I switched back to Openbox.
When I tried to pacman -R gnome it had like 3 packages that were depended on gnome. And those pacages were depended on other packages and so on. It took me like 15 mins to remove 30-40 packages manually.
Is there any smart switch for this? Didn't find any on the Wiki.

  -s, --recursive      remove dependencies also (that won't break packages)
                       (-ss includes explicitly installed dependencies too)

  -c, --cascade        remove packages and all packages that depend on them

hk2717 · 2008-08-21 07:38:27

Try reading the manpage ; )

ftornell · 2008-08-21 07:44:03

Told you I'm a n00b. Anyway...thx!

tomk · 2008-08-21 08:43:43

More general advice - being a noob does not excuse you from reading and searching before asking questions.

ftornell · 2008-08-21 11:26:57

Well...enough said!

Last edited by ftornell (2008-08-21 11:35:29)

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Removing pacages with Pacman

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#4 2008-08-21 07:38:27

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#5 2008-08-21 07:44:03

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