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DanceMan 04-18-2020 02:42 PM

MX 19.1 Can't uninstall program
 
Fresh install of MX linux 19.1 in a Thinkpad T61p. Installed Qbittorrent and have tried every application to deal with programs to remove Transmission and failed. In Synaptic when I find Transmission the option to remove it is greyed out. Have not had this problem in two previous installs of MX.
Must I resort to command line?
If so can someone provide me with text to copy and paste in terminal?
TIA

ondoho 04-18-2020 03:31 PM

To get started:
Code:

LC_ALL=C apt search transmission | grep -i installed

DanceMan 04-18-2020 11:24 PM

Your command returned these two lines. Instructions I found online produced the attempt below to uninstall. I'm guessing either transmission is part of a larger package of standard programs in MX and thus is not seen here or in Synaptic, or I made mistakes in the command line.


transmission-common/stable,stable,now 2.94-2 all [installed]
transmission-gtk/stable,now 2.94-2 amd64 [installed]
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$ sudo apt-get --purge remove transmission
[sudo] password for Danceman:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'transmission' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Danceman@T61p:~
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove transmission-common/stable,stable,now 2.94-2 all
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Release 'stable,stable,now' for 'transmission-common' was not found
E: Unable to locate package 2.94-2
E: Couldn't find any package by glob '2.94-2'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex '2.94-2'
E: Unable to locate package all

ondoho 04-19-2020 03:09 AM

Code:

apt purge transmission-common transmission-gtk
Possibly this would also work:
Code:

apt purge 'transmission-*'

DanceMan 04-19-2020 03:23 AM

Thank you very much.
"transmission-common transmission-gtk" worked. It's gone now.


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