[SOLVED] how to unmerge kde-meta?

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zacinfinite · Post by **zacinfinite** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:18 am

this is what i did to install:-
$emerge -av kde-meta

want to unmerge it:-
$emerge --unmerge kde-meta
--- Couldn't find 'kde-meta' to unmerge.

Please help

juanbobo · Post by **juanbobo** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:36 am

You could possibly either run emerge -C kde-meta, then emerge --depclean. What I've done before which works is go to the /usr/portage/kde-base and /usr/portage/kde-misc and run emerge -C *, this should remove all the kde packages if that is your goal...

waebbl · Post by **waebbl** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:21 am

Did your emerge kde-meta successfully finish? If portage complains about not being able to find an installed kde-meta, maybe the emerge failed at some point. You can use the depclean option from emerge to uninstall all packages which are no longer needed.

zacinfinite · Post by **zacinfinite** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:24 am

No the emerg kde-meta dint finish successfully that y i need to unmerge.

zac # emerge -C kde-meta
* This action can remove important packages! In order to be safer, use
* `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to check for reverse dependencies before
* removing packages.

--- Couldn't find 'kde-meta' to unmerge.

>>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge

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zac kde-base# emerge -C *
!!! 'metadata.xml' is not a valid package atom.
!!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.

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zac kde-base # emerge -C *
!!! 'metadata.xml' is not a valid package atom.
!!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.

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waebbl · Post by **waebbl** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:49 am

You cannot use emerge -C * as this would uninstall all and every package. Does emerge --info kde-meta gives you any information about the kde-meta Package Settings or just about the System Settings?

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Post whats below this line. If these lines do not appear, you don't have kde-meta installed!!

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:49 am

If kde-meta wasn't merged then you can't uninstall it. Just like you can't demolish a house if you didn't build it first.

If what you want is to remove the orphan dependencies, use emerge --depclean, revise carefully the list, and then hit "yes".