[SOLVED] Remove/uninstall Calligra* in slackware14 x86_64

Habitual · 07-24-2013, 08:20 PM

I can't get rid of it.

Code:

slackpkg search Calligra

and

Code:

ls -1 /var/log/packages/ | grep -Ei "CalliGRA|kde"
kde-baseapps-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kde-runtime-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kde-wallpapers-4.8.5-noarch-1
kde-workspace-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdeadmin-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdeartwork-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdegames-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdegraphics-mobipocket-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdegraphics-thumbnailers-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdelibs-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdemultimedia-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdenetwork-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdepim-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdepim-runtime-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdepimlibs-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdeplasma-addons-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdesdk-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdetoys-4.8.5-x86_64-1
kdevelop-4.3.1-x86_64-1
kdevelop-pg-qt-1.0.0-x86_64-1
kdevplatform-1.3.1-x86_64-1
kdewebdev-4.8.5-x86_64-1
libkdeedu-4.8.5-x86_64-1
perlkde-4.8.5-x86_64-1
polkit-kde-agent-1-9d74ae3_20120104git-x86_64-1
polkit-kde-kcmodules-1-001bdf7_20120111git-x86_64-1
pykde4-4.8.5-x86_64-1
smokekde-4.8.5-x86_64-1
wicd-kde-0.3.0_bcf27d8-x86_64-1

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

Code:

/usr/bin/calligrasheets -v    
Qt: 4.8.2
KDE Development Platform: 4.8.5 (4.8.5)
Calligra Sheets: 2.4.3

How can I nuke Calligra to orbit?

Thanks.

flokofcgulls · 07-24-2013, 08:36 PM

It might be a case issue, try this:

Code:

slackpkg search calligra

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.

frankbell · 07-24-2013, 09:45 PM

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.

kabamaru · 07-24-2013, 11:36 PM

Have you tried

Code:

slackpkg install calligra
slackpkg remove calligra

?

ruario · 07-25-2013, 05:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual

I poked around there and nothing conclusive, finally I ran

Code:

/usr/bin/calligrasheets -v    
Qt: 4.8.2
KDE Development Platform: 4.8.5 (4.8.5)
Calligra Sheets: 2.4.3

Try:

Code:

grep -F usr/bin/calligrasheets /var/log/packages/*

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual

How can I nuke Calligra to orbit?

Assuming you get the same response as me:

Code:

# removepkg calligra

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?

ruario · 07-25-2013, 05:25 AM

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.

Habitual · 07-25-2013, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

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.

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...

Code:

slackpkg search calligra
grep -F usr/bin/calligrasheets /var/log/packages/*
slackpkg install calligra
slackpkg remove calligra
slackpkg install calligra
slackpkg install Calligra
removepkg calligra

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

All negative.

Thanks to everyone!

ruario · 07-25-2013, 07:03 AM

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

Habitual · 07-25-2013, 07:45 AM

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:

Code:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root       562 2012-08-07 20:07 ./kde/calligra-2.4.3-x86_64-4.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  48702512 2012-08-07 20:07 ./kde/calligra-2.4.3-x86_64-4.txz


wget ftp://ftp.cc.swin.edu.au/slackware/slackware64-14.0/slackware64/kde/calligra-2.4.3-x86_64-4.txz
installpkg calligra-2.4.3-x86_64-4.txz
removepkg calligra

Done.

Slackware is the Bomb!

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

ruario · 07-25-2013, 07:50 AM

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!

Habitual · 07-25-2013, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ruario

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.

Code:

slackpkg search calligra
slackpkg search calligra-2.4.3
= No package name matches the pattern.

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!

kabamaru · 07-25-2013, 10:21 AM

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

Code:

grep calligra /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist

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

Code:

wc -l /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist

which returns 1283 on my machine.

ruario · 07-25-2013, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual

but slackpkg doesn't 'find' it... can't install (in the 'usual' manner) what it doesn't find.

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.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual

Nice to know that portions of a Meta-Package can now be removed.

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

Habitual · 07-25-2013, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kabamaru

Code:

wc -l /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist

which returns 1283 on my machine.

same here.

and

Code:

grep calligra /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist

shows

Code:

slackware64 calligra 2.4.3 x86_64 4 calligra-2.4.3-x86_64-4 ./slackware64/kde txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-ca 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-ca-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-ca@valencia 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-ca@valencia-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-cs 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-cs-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-da 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-da-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-de 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-de-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-el 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-el-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-en_GB 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-en_GB-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-es 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-es-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-et 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-et-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-fi 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-fi-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-fr 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-fr-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-hu 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-hu-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-it 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-it-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-kk 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-kk-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-nb 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-nb-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-nds 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-nds-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-nl 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-nl-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-pl 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-pl-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-pt 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-pt-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-pt_BR 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-pt_BR-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-ru 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-ru-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-sk 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-sk-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-sv 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-sv-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-uk 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-uk-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-zh_CN 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-zh_CN-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz
slackware64 calligra-l10n-zh_TW 2.4.3 noarch 1 calligra-l10n-zh_TW-2.4.3-noarch-1 ./slackware64/kdei txz

Are you suggesting something deeper may be at issue here?

kabamaru · 07-25-2013, 04:28 PM

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):

Code:

cat /var/lib/slackpkg/pkglist | cut -d' ' -f6 | sed 's/+/[+]/g' | while read line; do if slackpkg search $line | grep 'No package name matches the pattern' &>/dev/null; then echo $line; fi; done

example output:

Code:

xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist-noarch-1
aaa_elflibs-14.0-x86_64-4
xf86-video-nouveau-git_20120323_efd7a52-x86_64-1
xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.2-x86_64-1

PS. Do note this might take a couple of minutes.