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Question about removing an app with yaourt

I don't have much experience with Arch but I have been playing around with an Arch live cd called CTKArch and I installed it but I would like to remove a couple of the applications but I can't seem to find the proper command. Is someone willing to part with that particular bit of info?

Thanks..

You can use -R to modifier to uninstall or -Rsn to completely remove a package including config files and dependencies.

Code:

yaourt -R package

yaourt -Rsn package

Quote:

Originally Posted by oTarUX (Post 4233883)

You can use -R to modifier to uninstall or -Rsn to completely remove a package including config files and dependencies.

Code:

yaourt -R package

yaourt -Rsn package

Hi, unfortunately this does not work with CTKArch anyway...I think the repos must be frozen by default when installing the live system to HD. I remember seeing something about commenting out the arm entry at the beginning of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to get back to rolling release. I didn't know how to do that so now I'm wondering if that is a factor in removing apps. I can install them no problem running yaourt but removing them is different.

Code:

# pacman -Rsn package-name