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The Newfie
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 Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject: removing applications you have emerged..? |
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quick question how would i go about removeing something i have emerged and nolonger want or need..?
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taurus
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | emerge unmerge <app>
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emerge -C <app> |
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JC Denton
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I believe the following command should do the trick:
The -C switch tells emerge to "unmerge" the package, and the -a switch makes sure emerge *asks* before proceeding. |
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PeteBourner
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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It would make sense to do an 'emerge --depclean' after the unmerge as well, to remove any dependencies of the package which are not needed by anything else on your system.
To give an example of why this is useful, consider the 'kde' package. This is effectively just a dummy package which has all the good stuff ( kdebase, kdelibs, kde-whatever etc ) listed as dependencies. If you install kde, and then try to remove it with 'emerge --unmerge kde', you will still have basically all the kde packages installed. Running depclean will clean them out.
I think you should finally do a 'revdep-rebuild' also. |
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Ateo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Should you choose to do an emerge --depclean, make sure you run it with pretend or ask mode options... |
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codergeek42
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| Ateo wrote: | | Should you choose to do an emerge --depclean, make sure you run it with pretend or ask mode options... |
And make sure to remove only what you are absolutely sure you don't need and run a `revdep-rebuild` immediately afterward to be safe. (revdep-rebuild is part of the app-portage/gentoolkit package.)
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