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#1 2009-03-01 18:49:29

deadlylife
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Xfce4 installed twice.

Hello, yesterday, I noticed that the repos still did not have Xfce 4.6.0 so I downloaded the installer from xfce.org and installed it. I ran #"pacman -Syu" today and it updated my Xfce 4 to 4.6. So now I have the Xfce4 that Pacman installed and the one I installed with the installer. How would I remove the one that pacman isn't managing?

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#2 2009-03-01 18:53:45

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

Does the installer from the XFCE website have an uninstall option?   Where was it installed to (i.e. did you need to force the xfce installation in pacman).

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#3 2009-03-01 18:59:29

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

No (no)

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#4 2009-03-01 19:02:43

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

I ran ./[installer] --help and it didn't mention removal or anything along those lines.

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#5 2009-03-01 19:04:56

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

i'm wondering why the hell did you do that smile. we had xfce 4.6 rc


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#6 2009-03-01 19:06:06

deadlylife
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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

rc?

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#7 2009-03-01 19:07:44

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

deadlylife wrote:

rc?

Release Candidate. The beta had been in 'testing' for weeks.

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#8 2009-03-01 19:07:51

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

release candidate. that the version before release smile


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#9 2009-03-01 19:10:20

deadlylife
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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

So how would I remove the one I installed with the installer.

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#10 2009-03-01 19:12:30

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

Allan's second question is a good one. Where in the directory tree was it installed? /usr, /usr/local, /opt?

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#11 2009-03-01 19:13:24

deadlylife
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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

Didn't notice the second one outside parentheses, checking now . . .

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#12 2009-03-01 19:16:07

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

/usr/local
Should I just remove every xfce4 directory under there?

Last edited by deadlylife (2009-03-01 19:17:33)

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#13 2009-03-01 19:18:29

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

deadlylife wrote:

/usr/local
Should I just remove every xfce4 directory under there?

That's beautiful. It couldn't be in a better place. Yes, removing the folder is fine. It may create some issues with your XFCE config files, but I kind of doubt it.

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#14 2009-03-01 19:20:33

deadlylife
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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

Okay, the /usr/local subdirs are riddled with xfce4 items. How would I remove everything with "xfce4" in the file name or directory name in /usr/local.

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#15 2009-03-01 19:30:24

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

I'm not a scripting Guru, and haven't tested it, but something like this as root may work:

find /usr/local -iname "*xfce*" -exec rm -rf {} \;

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#16 2009-03-01 19:36:10

deadlylife
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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

It removed them, but the packages under the "xfce4" group are not 4.6.

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#17 2009-03-01 19:37:58

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

you can wait your preffered mirror to sync or you can select another one. i'm using

Server = http://mir.archlinux.fr/$repo/os/x86_64

modify x86_64 with i686 if is the case

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#18 2009-03-01 19:41:11

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

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Last edited by deadlylife (2009-03-01 19:45:39)

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#19 2009-03-01 19:45:26

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Re: Xfce4 installed twice.

Read the instructions that come with the installer, if not, ask on the XFCE forum.


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