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MikeEnIke

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Registered: 2010-04-13

Posts: 15

How do I remove transmission?

Ok so I figured removing transmission would be a simple 'sudo pacman -R transmission', but it says that it's not found in the localdb. So I ran 'sudo updatedb' and tried again. Still didn't work. Transmission is definitely installed, I have it open right now, so what's going on?

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austin.rbn

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Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 77

Re: How do I remove transmission?

Try running "pacman -Qs transmission" and note the actual name of the package.

Last edited by austin.rbn (2010-04-28 20:59:26)

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MikeEnIke

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Registered: 2010-04-13

Posts: 15

Re: How do I remove transmission?

that worked, I guess it takes a little more effort to remove than install programs. Thanks a lot.

ewaller

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Re: How do I remove transmission?

pacman -Qo `which transmission`
Should tell you the name of the package that owns transmission.  Note -- the accents are grave accents.

Edit:  I am slow on the draw today

Last edited by ewaller (2010-04-28 21:03:36)

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Peasantoid

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Registered: 2009-04-26

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Re: How do I remove transmission?

So I ran 'sudo updatedb' and tried again.

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That is not what updatedb does. See updatedb(8).

ijsbeer

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Registered: 2009-04-20

Posts: 14

Re: How do I remove transmission?

sudo pacman -Qs transmission wil also work to find the name.

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JuseBox

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Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 260

Re: How do I remove transmission?

its actually transmission-gtk

pacman -Rs transmission-gtk

That will remove it and any unused deps that were installed with it.
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You can also see what you would have installed it as with:

pacman -Ss transmission

Last edited by JuseBox (2010-05-01 14:27:44)

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Misfit138

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Re: How do I remove transmission?

that worked..

NO.
That did not work; you have merely run a query function.

..I guess it takes a little more effort to remove than install programs. Thanks a lot.

No, you just need to remove the package with pacman -R <correct-package-name>. There is no package named 'transmission', as pacman has correctly reported to you.

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