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Corburry

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Registered: 2021-03-31

Posts: 3

Problem while uninstalling Alsa packages

Soo, I recently decided to try out the Awesome WM. While playing around with the config I uninstalled the following packages using Pamac:

alsa-card-profiles, alsa-firmware, alsa-lib, alsa-oss, alsa-plugins, alsa-topology-conf, alsa-ucm-conf and alsa-utils.

My problem is that many other packages that are unrelated to Alsa (as far as i know) have been uninstalled as well (about 400). Here is a short extract of the pacman.log:

[2021-03-31T15:12:45+0200] [ALPM] transaction started
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM] removed termite (15-3)
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM] removed kio-extras (20.12.3-1)
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM] removed mpd (0.22.6-2)
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM] removed pavucontrol (1:4.0-2)
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM] removed gedit (3.38.1-1)
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM] removed linux-wifi-hotspot (4.0.3-1)
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Optionally remove config file:
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] sudo rm /etc/wh.config
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM] removed lib32-alsa-lib (1.2.4-2)
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM] removed kdegraphics-mobipocket (20.12.3-1)
[2021-03-31T15:12:46+0200] [ALPM] removed arandr (0.1.10-5)
...

Does someone know what happened here? Also, what would be the best way to reinstall all the packages?
Thanks in advance!

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Problem while uninstalling Alsa packages

using pamac? What command did it use to uninstall? What did it show you?

Corburry

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Registered: 2021-03-31

Posts: 3

Re: Problem while uninstalling Alsa packages

Thanks for answering! Yeah, i used the GUI app. So I didn't really use a command. The log doesn't really show what happened, it just starts with the lines I posted (is there a log specifically for pamac? I could only find the one for pacman).
After it finished I got an error concerning light-dm. After a reboot i had to reinstall the lightdm-gtk-greeter using a tty. That was one of the packages that got removed.

icar

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Registered: 2020-07-31

Posts: 562

Re: Problem while uninstalling Alsa packages

seems like it used pacman's --cascade option (this is why using something different to pacman is not recommended, I'd say...). I'd personally install the packages one by one while reading the log.

Last edited by icar (2021-03-31 15:06:25)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: Problem while uninstalling Alsa packages

step 1: ditch pamac

Corburry

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Registered: 2021-03-31

Posts: 3

Re: Problem while uninstalling Alsa packages

Okay, got it thanks for helping out!