apps and dependencies

viyoriya

brent

check eopkg info <blah> to find dependencies
open eopkg hsand find the installed package and its dependencies then delete eopkg rm <blah>
eopkg rmo will remove orphans/residue

I prefer eopkg hs to find and remove

Normally it does popup/warn about dependencies i guess

kyrios

viyoriya eopkg rmo will remove orphans/residue

Yep try this

Justin

Uninstalling things without things going up in flames, that's a new one. 😃

I would take a backup of your system, this is ALWAYS a good first step when making any system changes.

Then go through your applications menu, uninstall things you don't use or want any more.

Then run sudo eopkg remove-orphans this will remove any packages that aren't depended on by another package. So if you install applicationA and it depends on libraryB and you remove applicationA. If libraryB isn't used by another application you can remove-orphans.

brent

Justin Then go through your applications menu, uninstall things you don't use or want any more.

THAT is the approach I will take. Visually I.D. app in app menu. Terminal uninstall of app. Then RMO's etc to mop up dependencies.

All replies were genius and I took all your strategies and made a plan. Can't thank you enough all.
Please mark SOLVED.

algent

working for me @brent, here is an example:

brent

algent The lovely image of orphans going bye-bye! Nice.

JoshStrobl

brent I think you mean you made sure to give those orphans a new home. Some other can have those packages now! 😛

brent

JoshStrobl Kind of scary-movie-sounding when I re-read myself......🙂

EbonJaeger

brent Luckily (sadly) we don't have a Solus out of Context thread... 😛

xahodo

When I tried to do "sudo eopkg rmo" it showed me the following:
pciutils apparmor luajit libselinux squashfs-tools
Are these ok to be removed? I have recently removed snapd from my computer, but I'm actually not sure whether any of these are used by the base system and I'd send my system down the drain. 😐

brent

xahodo
I wouldn't do it. I'd follow @viyoriya 's sequence first so you can see if this stuff really belongs to something (peace of mind).

v3l0ct

Justin answered this, those packages are not dependent on packages in the system. I've not had any issues at all with sudo eopkg rmo.

brent

v3l0ct Interpretation I guess. I looked at his answer for me as cleaning up loose ends before committing to rmo. There's also a cache delete command.

True, though, I've used both successfully with no problem. I like the idea of checking it all out before gutting stuff, though. So I was grateful for the ideas.

viyoriya

careful with uninstalling main packages for example if you try to remove caja it will remove mate-desktop....

v3l0ct

brent true. there is a difference between removing a package that removes dependencies and orphaned packages left behind by a removed package. Always good to be cautious when removing a package to make sure it doesn't remove needed packages elsewhere but removing orphaned packages should have a very low probability, if any, to do damage.

brent

Used to recklessly destroy my solus installs 2017-18 via rookie tinkering. From then til now I use terminal cleanup commands with confidence all the time. Just wanted to make sure I'm not reckless now. Kind of 'better safe than sorry' mindset where before it was the rodeo🙂

Cossty

Sorry for necro.
Is sudo eopkg rmo and sudo eopkg remove-orphans the same thing?
I just want to make sure.

myke

Cossty Yes. If you type eopkg help, you'll see more commands with their short form in parenthesis.

Cossty

myke thx