Why can't I uninstall pacman package with -Rs settings?

Solution 1

You can try

pacman -Rsc xfce4

From the Wiki:

To remove a package, its dependencies and all the packages that depend on the target package.

Solution 2

xfce4 is not a package but a group of package.
So, may be when you try to remove xfce4, pacman tries to remove each package from the xfce4 group and mix up itself with the dependencies.
I suggest you to run again the command to install xfce and to type enter to install all the packages of the xfce4 group

sudo pacman -S xfce4

Then after that try to uninstall xfce as you used to do

sudo pacman -Rs xfce4

If the problem persists, try to uninstall manually the packages of the xfce4 group

sudo pacman -Rs xfdesktop

Repeat the same command for the remaining packages :

   1) exo  2) garcon  3) gtk2-xfce-engine  4) gtk3-xfce-engine  5) thunar  6) thunar-volman  7) tumbler  8) xfce4-appfinder
   9) xfce4-mixer  10) xfce4-panel  11) xfce4-power-manager  12) xfce4-session  13) xfce4-settings  14) xfce4-terminal
   15) xfconf  16) xfdesktop  17) xfwm4  18) xfwm4-themes

user12157566

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

user12157566 almost 2 years
I would like to merge two data using different years.

My data are like the below with more than 1,000 firms with 20 years span.

And I want to merge data to examine firm A's ratio at t's impact on firm A's count at t+1.
```
Data A

firm   year   ratio
 A     1990    0.2
 A     1991    0.3
...
 B     1990    0.1
```
```
Data B
firm   tyear  count
 A     1990     2
 A     1991     6
...
 B     1990     4
```
```
Expected Output

firm year ratio count
 A   1990  0.2   6
```
Any suggestion for code to merge data? Thank you
- Nicolas about 11 years
  
  Could you check if a system update sudo pacman -Syu produces the same error?
- Rohit over 4 years
  
  Can you please show what you've tried so far. Also, please post a reproducible example
- Kidae Kim over 4 years
  
  Use lag() with merge(). This link should help: stackoverflow.com/questions/1299871/…
- hannes101 over 4 years
  
  Does any of the two answers provided, solve the question for you? If yes, then please consider accepting one of them.
greduan about 11 years

I did consider that... However how about the case when I have another package I do want, which depends on one of these... And since I'm still a newbie I haven't paid that much attention to my packages yet...
Stefan Seidel about 11 years

Well in that case you can't uninstall the original package, clearly because if others which you want depend on it, it can't be uninstalled.
greduan about 11 years

That's what sudo pacman -Rs xfce4 however. From the wiki: "To remove a package and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package". Basically it removes anything I'm not actually using, which works better for my needs. My question is why I'm getting this error though...
greduan about 11 years

That works... Still had to remove xfconf from the list because it kept giving me the error. But at least now they're gone. :)
Nicolas about 11 years

@Eduan, the first solution worked or you needed to use the second one? Do you still have the same problem with the xfconf package? Is your problem solved?
greduan about 11 years

I had to uninstall manually all the packages of the xfce4 group. Except those that I needed. :)