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wadk

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[SOLVED] Use pacman.log to find all dependencies installed

After installing pacman -S deepin, it came with bunch of junk, e.g. Avahi VNC Server Browser, LSHW, etc. I want to delete these, but pacman cannot delete them individually. For example, deepin came with VLC that I had to uninstall by installing VLC again using pacman -S. Afterwards, I was able to delete it with all dependencies and whatnot with pacman -Rs vlc. However, some of these applications are not so easily dealt with (LSHW, QT Assistant... list goes on). Is there a better way than manually searching and deleting files? I understand this might break my build, but with a backup only problem is it being tedious.

Thank you for reading.

Last edited by wadk (2021-02-12 12:19:29)

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Re: [SOLVED] Use pacman.log to find all dependencies installed

pacman cannot delete them individually. For example, deepin came with VLC that I had to uninstall by installing VLC again using pacman -S.

Why do you have to do this? What was preventing you just running `pacman -Rs vlc` from the start?

Please post your pacman.log.

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wadk

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Re: [SOLVED] Use pacman.log to find all dependencies installed

pacman cannot delete them individually. For example, deepin came with VLC that I had to uninstall by installing VLC again using pacman -S.

Why do you have to do this? What was preventing you just running `pacman -Rs vlc` from the start?

Please post your pacman.log.

Thanks for your response!
pacman -Rs vlc at the time returned "error: target not found: vlc"

Thank you for asking the pacman.log, it shows all the packages installed. Previously I thought pacman -Qe also did this, but it does not show what was installed as dependencies.

I can now do pacman -Rs lshw and it shows up. I think this changed after I ran pacman -Syu when there was something to update and rebooted. Now I can get back to individually uninstalling the applications. Thanks again!

On related note, Deepin on arch is wild. E.g. in case of LSHW it has created 80 pairs of same executable under /proc/(random three digit number)/root/sbin/lshw.

Would not install deepin as the first DE to try on arch.

Last edited by wadk (2021-02-12 12:16:52)