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jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

Posts: 453

I cannot uninstall koffice[SOLVED]

Hello,

Some time ago, I installed koffice just to see how it looks. But now, I want to uninstall it because I don't like it. But I cannot remove it. When try to uninstall I get this:

[root@myhost mak]# pacman -Rsn koffice
koffice not found, searching for group...
:: group koffice:
    koffice-filters  koffice-interfaces  koffice-karbon  koffice-kchart
    koffice-kdgantt  koffice-kounavail  koffice-kplato  koffice-kpresenter
    koffice-krita  koffice-kspread  koffice-kword  koffice-libs  koffice-pics
    koffice-plugins  koffice-servicetypes  koffice-templates
    koffice-thesaurus-doc  koffice-tools
    Remove whole content? [Y/n] y
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-interfaces
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-kounavail
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-kspread
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-plugins
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-karbon
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-kplato
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-kword
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-servicetypes
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-kchart
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-kpresenter
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-libs
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-templates
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-filters
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-krita
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-pics
:: koffice-meta-koffice: requires koffice-tools
[root@myhost mak]#

Any idea how to remove it?

Thanks,
jmak

Last edited by jmak (2010-02-17 03:20:14)

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

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Re: I cannot uninstall koffice[SOLVED]

It looks like an effect of koffice getting split into multiple packages and the koffice-meta-koffice package isn't actually part of the koffice group. So pacman's trying to remove the group, but running into a problem since it doesn't want to remove the meta-package that depends on everything in the group.

pacman -Rsn koffice-meta-koffice should do the trick, and you probably want to report this a bug too.

jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

Posts: 453

Re: I cannot uninstall koffice[SOLVED]

It looks like an effect of koffice getting split into multiple packages and the koffice-meta-koffice package isn't actually part of the koffice group. So pacman's trying to remove the group, but running into a problem since it doesn't want to remove the meta-package that depends on everything in the group.

pacman -Rsn koffice-meta-koffice should do the trick, and you probably want to report this a bug too.

Thanks a lot, this indeed did the trick.
Bug is reported.

Anikom15

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Re: I cannot uninstall koffice[SOLVED]

You could try -Rsc as well, it removes uneeded dependencies, be careful though.

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jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

Posts: 453

Re: I cannot uninstall koffice[SOLVED]

You could try -Rsc as well, it removes uneeded dependencies, be careful though.

Thanks a lot,

This removed two more packages, like the koffice-thesaurus and koffice-kdgantt.