Uninstall and cleaning-up question.

chris_debian · 2009-03-13 20:43:58

Hi,

I've nearly got my Arch install set-up as I want it. I also installed yaourt, so that I could install 64-bit Skype.

I'm probably going to dump Skype in favour of one of the OSS apps, so am happy to remove yaourt and anything else it brought with it.

Is there a recommended way to clean-up any unneeded dependencies, using pacman?

Should I just remove the yaourt URL from my pacman file?

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Chris.

Hrod beraht · 2009-03-13 21:01:08

Did you install it through the repository in your pacman.conf?
If so, just pacman -Rsn yaourt

Bob

Last edited by Hrod beraht (2009-03-13 21:06:33)

Inxsible · 2009-03-13 21:06:35

Are you never planning to install anything from the AUR? Yaourt helps out in searching the AUR and installing packages from there. AUR has lots of OSS software too. I personally downloaded the PKGBUILD and then built the package with makepkg and installed with pacman -U. So pacman -Rns yaourt will remove it for me.

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-13 21:08:00)

chris_debian · 2009-03-13 21:13:15

I can't say that I'll never use AUR, but all the packages I want so far, with the exception of Skype, seem to be in the normal repositories.

I like to keep the system clean and tidy ('ish) :-).

Thanks,

Chris.

Inxsible · 2009-03-13 21:16:32

chris_debian wrote:

I can't say that I'll never use AUR, but all the packages I want so far, with the exception of Skype, seem to be in the normal repositories.
I like to keep the system clean and tidy ('ish) :-).
Thanks,
Chris.

So if you ever want a package from AUR you will re-install yaourt and then subsequently remove it in an endless loop?

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-13 21:16:50)

dannytatom · 2009-03-13 21:51:42

pacman -Rsn is a full remove
paman -Qdt lists orphaned packages
pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qtdq) removes said orphans

I have a question about yaourt (sorry if I'm stealing your thread). In my .bashrc I use yaourt -Rsn to remove packages. I figure it's the same as pacman since yaourt is a wrapper, but should I use pacman -Rsn instead?

chris_debian · 2009-03-14 09:18:58

So if you ever want a package from AUR you will re-install yaourt and then subsequently remove it in an endless loop?

Point taken yaourt stays :-)

chris_debian · 2009-03-14 09:21:10

dannytatom wrote:

pacman -Rsn is a full remove
paman -Qdt lists orphaned packages
pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qtdq) removes said orphans

I'll run

pacman -Qdt

first to make sure it's sane, then if it is,

pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qtdq)

Many thanks,

Chris.

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