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dc3671

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Registered: 2015-12-26

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How to unintsall Kate with kde-meta-base's dependence

I'm new to Archlinux, and really love it. I chose the KDE5 Desktop and installed kde-meta-base package. Now I want to uninstall the kde's editor, Kate & Kwrite, but facing the problem below. How could I resolve it?

$ yaourt -R kate
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kde-meta-kdebase: requires kate

If i was wrong about the topic format, tell me please.

desaparecido

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From: Liège, Belgium

Registered: 2010-03-14

Posts: 155

Re: How to unintsall Kate with kde-meta-base's dependence

Hi  welcome to archlinux ;-)
You only need

pacman -Rdd package 

But use carefully, not to use without know that is no really needed by another important package

If you want learn about pacman there are doc with

man pacman

Or in wiki

Last edited by desaparecido (2016-01-02 15:10:48)

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Steef435

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Re: How to unintsall Kate with kde-meta-base's dependence

The kde-meta-base package doesn't contain any files of itself. It only lists other packages as dependencies so you can quickly install those packages just by installing this. So you can safely remove the meta package and then remove kate. You can also choose to ignore dependencies as described above, but doing this often is bound to lead to broken systems.

By the way, newcomers are generally advised to not use an AUR helper like yaourt but to build AUR packages manually to find out how it works.

dc3671

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 5

Re: How to unintsall Kate with kde-meta-base's dependence

Hi  welcome to archlinux ;-)
You only need

pacman -Rdd package 

But use carefully, not to use without know that is no really needed by another important package

If you want learn about pacman there are doc with

man pacman

Or in wiki

Solved perfectly! Thank you for your help!

dc3671

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 5

Re: How to unintsall Kate with kde-meta-base's dependence

The kde-meta-base package doesn't contain any files of itself. It only lists other packages as dependencies so you can quickly install those packages just by installing this. So you can safely remove the meta package and then remove kate. You can also choose to ignore dependencies as described above, but doing this often is bound to lead to broken systems.

By the way, newcomers are generally advised to not use an AUR helper like yaourt but to build AUR packages manually to find out how it works.

Thank you for your reply! It's really helpful!
Actually I've read some articles about AUR&PKGBUILD&.install. I'll be careful anyway~

Last edited by dc3671 (2016-01-02 15:18:42)