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IMBJR

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From: INDCMPLX

Registered: 2014-03-16

Posts: 88

[SOLVED] Cannot remove mate-desktop and its dependencies

I'm doing some tidying up and decided that mate-desktop had to go. So I issued:

$ sudo pacman -Rss mate-desktop

which got me:

checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: atril: requires mate-desktop
:: caja: requires mate-desktop
:: eom: requires mate-desktop
:: marco: requires mate-desktop
:: mate-control-center: requires mate-desktop
:: mate-media-pulseaudio: requires mate-desktop
:: mate-panel: requires mate-desktop
:: mate-screensaver: requires mate-desktop
:: mate-session-manager: requires mate-desktop
:: mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio: requires mate-desktop
:: mate-terminal: requires mate-desktop
:: pluma: requires mate-desktop

which surprised me as the man page for pacman suggested that -Rss removes a package and all its dependencies, even those explicitly installed, which -Qi revealed was the case for, example, pluma.

Attempting to remove the mate group got me very similar results:

$ sudo pacman -Rss mate
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: atril: requires mate-desktop
:: atril: requires mate-icon-theme
:: engrampa: requires caja
:: eom: requires mate-desktop
:: eom: requires mate-icon-theme
:: mate-applets: requires mate-panel
:: mate-media-pulseaudio: requires marco
:: mate-media-pulseaudio: requires mate-desktop
:: mate-netspeed: requires mate-panel
:: mate-power-manager: requires mate-panel
:: mate-screensaver: requires mate-desktop
:: mate-screensaver: requires mate-menus
:: mate-screensaver: requires mate-session-manager
:: mate-sensors-applet: requires mate-panel
:: mate-system-monitor: requires mate-icon-theme
:: mate-system-tools: requires mate-polkit
:: mate-terminal: requires mate-desktop
:: mozo: requires mate-menus
:: pluma: requires mate-desktop
:: pluma: requires mate-dialogs

So what should i do to remove the MATE desktop?

Last edited by IMBJR (2014-09-24 07:27:07)

IMBJR

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From: INDCMPLX

Registered: 2014-03-16

Posts: 88

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot remove mate-desktop and its dependencies

This is the solution:

sudo pacman -Rsn mate mate-extra

which includes the n option to not save any settings.