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RazZziel

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From: Spain

Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 36

Can't remove package

Some time ago, pacman -Rd worked as expected, removing pakages disregarding its dependencies, but now it doesn't seem to work for me.

I have cairo-xcb installed, but I want to switch to cairo. This is how it goes:

O_O[raziel@Bebop ~]$ sudo pacman -Sd cairo
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: cairo and cairo-xcb are in conflict. Remove cairo-xcb? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: awesome: requires cairo-xcb
O_O[raziel@Bebop ~]$ sudo pacman -Rd cairo-xcb
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: awesome: requires cairo-xcb
:: cairomm: requires cairo
:: evas-svn: requires cairo
:: gnuplot: requires cairo
:: gsdjvu: requires cairo
:: gtk2: requires cairo
:: gtk3: requires cairo
:: libgdiplus: requires cairo
:: pango: requires cairo
:: performous: requires cairo
:: poppler: requires cairo
:: python2-cairo: requires cairo
:: xcowsay: requires cairo

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Can't remove package

man pacman. Read it carefully

-d, --nodeps

    Skips dependency version checks. Package names are still checked. Normally, pacman will always check a package’s dependency fields to ensure that all dependencies are installed and there are no package conflicts in the system. Specify this option twice to skip all dependency checks.

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RazZziel

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From: Spain

Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 36

Re: Can't remove package

Is that -dd instead of -d option new. I totally overlooked it.

Thanks a lot

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: Can't remove package

Is that -dd instead of -d option new. I totally overlooked it.

Thanks a lot

Yes, fairly new (3.5 specific I think).

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Allan

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Re: Can't remove package

(3.5 specific I think).

Correct

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