Remove/uninstall Calligra* in slackware14 x86_64
 

I can't get rid of it.

and
Yet, it sits there in Office taunting me.

I checked /etc/xfce/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu and that just has an entry for
/usr/share/desktop-directories/xfce-office.directory

I poked around there and nothing conclusive, finally I ran
How can I nuke Calligra to orbit?

Thanks.

It might be a case issue, try this:
I just checked on my system, and I get the results expected with a lowercase 'c' at the beginning of the word Calligra.

From that point, you should be able to use removepkg to uninstall the ones you don't want.

I don't want to sound like a smart-aleck, but why do you want to uninstall it? Updates will keep wanting to put it back.

Maybe I'm lazy, but I wouldn't think it was worth the effort.

Have you tried

?

Try:

On my system this returns: /var/log/packages/calligra-2.4.3-x86_64-4:usr/bin/calligrasheets. Does yours print the same?

Assuming you get the same response as me:

If it returns some other package name then you can remove that package instead (check first the package contains nothing else you might need). If no result is returned then Calligra would appear to exist outside of the Slackware packaging system. Which poses the question, how did it get their? Have you been compiling your own KDE?

Also +1 to kabamaru's suggestion. This would reinstall Calligra and then wipe it, even if it was previously installed outside of the packaging system.

I can blacklist it. :)

frankbell: I never think your the smart-aleck-y type. "Why" is a perfectly valid question IMO. :)
and I can blacklist it. I don't use it so I want to lose it (LibreOffice here).

Maybe I can 'hide' it from the menu...

(This is what I meant by 'poked around' btw...)

All negative.

Thanks to everyone!

after the final 'removepkg calligra' is it still present?

Gone like last year's lawn
 

Here's how I removed calligra
I thought I read here (somewhere) about this being included with kde...so I checked my /etc/slackpkg/mirrors files and saw
ftp://ftp.cc.swin.edu.au/slackware/slackware64-14.0/ is what I chose, so I navigated there with my browser and checked FILE_LIST.TXT. Verified 2 files present:
Done.

Slackware is the Bomb!

Thanks everyone who pitched in with their suggestions.
Now we know.

FWIW, that is pretty much exactly what kabamaru said. He suggested using slackpkg but the effect is the same as slackpkg just downloads calligra and calls installpkg to install it, then when you uninstall via slackpkg it calls removepkg.

Anyway, whatever you got there in the end. That is the main thing! :)

but slackpkg doesn't 'find' it... can't install (in the 'usual' manner) what it doesn't find.
Nice to know that portions of a Meta-Package can now be removed. :)

as long as the end result is the same, I'm cool with that. :)

Thanks!

Your slackpkg search calligra output doesn't look good though. I would do a

and maybe trying switching to a different mirror, adding the gpg, running update etc. Maybe your slackpkg update produces gpg errors and you're missing other packages too.

I'd also try
which returns 1283 on my machine.

Then you probably have blacklisted calligra, the whole kde group or have a blacklist entry that matches in some other way. This will prevent slackpkg from finding it, even for removal.

calligra is a complete package in its own right, not a portion of any other package.

same here.

and
shows
Are you suggesting something deeper may be at issue here?

Well, at least we could test if there are other packages that slackpkg cannot find. Run this as root; it will report only the packages that couldn't be found. Normally it will only list the ones you have blacklisted (official packages):

example output:
PS. Do note this might take a couple of minutes.

I made my comment because I tried removing akonadi once, because nothing that it indexes matters to me. The updates kept trying to put it back.

I finally decided to just pretend that it doesn't exist, since I don't use the KDE desktop nor any of the applications the akonadi indexes for (though I use a lot of KDE applications). (Akonadi and the constant nagging from kwallet are the reaons I don't use Kmail, though it's a perfectly adequate mail client.)

output is:
blacklist contents:
Thanks!

Perhaps I could.

Your reasons are probably similar to mine. I use very few KDE programs, Mahjongg for the Wifey is about it.

It's all Good!

Thanks to both of you.

If calligra was blacklisted before you tried to run the slackpkg commands to install and remove it, then that is why it failed.

No point to change the mirror. As ruario said, this was all due to the fact you had calligra blacklisted, so slackpkg was ignoring it. Btw if you don't use slackpkg install-new, I don't see the point having it blacklisted. Anyway, I'm glad you got this sorted out ;-)