Cant uninstall application installed from source with pacman.

I made and installed the songbird-nightly program. It couldnt import a library, thus, wasnt even worth fully testing, unless I was going to manually get it to read all of my songs-- which I will not do.
Now, to get this off my computer, I tried several things, and then determined that I must not be using the right package name, so I ran:
pacman -Q | grep songbird
and it returned :
songbird-nightly 20080720-1
thus, I did:
pacman -Rsc songbird-nightly-20080720-1
and it returned:
error: 'songbird-nightly-20080720-1': could not find or read package
So, how do I get this poo off my computer.
Ok, its not poo. I love mozilla and virtually every program they make, but right now, its poo.

Misfit138 wrote:
miesnerd wrote:i hate that it was that easy.
Thanks though. Still learning the in's and out's of pacman. It's not exactly apt-get.
Don't hate pacman for being perfect.
If pacman is perfect, then how come it won't improve anymore?

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