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#1 2021-03-13 18:46:01

geekgory
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Ghost Chromium [uninstalled but still there] [SOLVED]

Hello,

I was a chromium user and i switched to firefox. I removed Chromium from my system using the following command "sudo pacman -Rns chromium". I am sure about it because i always use my fish abbreviation to remove anything.
I noticed 2 days ago in my dmenu that chromium was an option. I can open it using dmenu and also using my terminal. I though i forgot to remove it. I open my terminal and typed "sudo pacman -Rns chromium". the answer was "error: target not found: chromium".

I try to re install it and here is what i got:

sudo pacman -S chromium
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)     New Version     Net Change

extra/chromium  89.0.4389.90-1  217,90 MiB

Total Installed Size:  217,90 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                            [------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                          [------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                               [------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                         [------------------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
chromium: /usr/bin/chromedriver exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/bin/chromium exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/chrome_100_percent.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/chrome_200_percent.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/chromedriver exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/libEGL.so exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/libGLESv2.so exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/am.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ar.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/bg.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/bn.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ca.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/cs.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/da.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/de.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/el.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/en-GB.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/en-US.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/es-419.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/es.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/et.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/fa.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/fi.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/fil.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/fr.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/gu.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/he.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/hi.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/hr.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/hu.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/id.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/it.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ja.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/kn.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ko.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/lt.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/lv.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ml.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/mr.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ms.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/nb.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/nl.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/pl.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/pt-BR.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/pt-PT.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ro.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ru.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sk.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sl.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sr.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sv.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/sw.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/ta.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/te.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/th.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/tr.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/uk.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/vi.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/zh-CN.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/locales/zh-TW.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/resources.pak exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/swiftshader/libEGL.so exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/v8_context_snapshot.bin exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/chromium.png exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/chromium.png exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/chromium.png exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/chromium.png exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/chromium.png exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/chromium.png exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/chromium.png exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/licenses/chromium/LICENSE exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/licenses/chromium/LICENSE.launcher exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/man/man1/chromium.1.gz exists in filesystem
chromium: /usr/share/metainfo/chromium.appdata.xml exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Thank you for any help.

Last edited by geekgory (2021-03-14 15:39:07)


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#2 2021-03-13 20:08:30

philo
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Posts: 251

Re: Ghost Chromium [uninstalled but still there] [SOLVED]

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#3 2021-03-13 20:38:59

StJimmy
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Posts: 71

Re: Ghost Chromium [uninstalled but still there] [SOLVED]

It almost sounds like 'another' Chromium copy got installed. What's the output of

pacman -Qo /usr/bin/chromium

?


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#4 2021-03-14 08:47:31

geekgory
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Registered: 2019-03-12
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Re: Ghost Chromium [uninstalled but still there] [SOLVED]

Thank you for the reply.

here is the command results:

pacman -Qo /usr/bin/chromium
error: No package owns /usr/bin/chromium

i am not sure if that helps but using this command

LC_ALL=C pacman -Qi | awk '/^Name/{name=$3} /^Installed Size/{print $4$5, name}' | sort -h

(found there https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … ny_package)

i can see chromium in the list.


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#5 2021-03-14 10:47:04

philo
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Re: Ghost Chromium [uninstalled but still there] [SOLVED]

Deleting all the files listed here should work:

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … ium/files/

Last edited by philo (2021-03-14 10:48:19)

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#6 2021-03-14 15:57:09

geekgory
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Re: Ghost Chromium [uninstalled but still there] [SOLVED]

I was afraid to manually remove the files manually. Obviously i was wrong.
Thank you.


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