[Solved] Uninstalling vlc - dependency issues

Question

pacman 4.2.0:
[root@arch ~]# pacman -Rs vlc
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: phonon-qt4-vlc: requires vlc
[root@arch ~]# pacman -Rs vlc phonon-qt4-vlc
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: phonon-qt4: requires phonon-qt4-backend
[root@arch ~]# pacman -Rs vlc phonon-qt4-vlc phonon-qt4
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kdelibs: requires phonon-qt4
[root@arch ~]# pacman -Rs phonon-qt4-vlc
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: phonon-qt4: requires phonon-qt4-backend
[root@arch ~]# pacman -R phonon-qt4-vlc
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: phonon-qt4: requires phonon-qt4-backend
And I can't even
[root@arch ~]# pacman -R vlc
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: phonon-qt4-vlc: requires vlc
Last edited by nesk (2015-01-06 11:48:12)

Answer 1

Lone_Wolf wrote:
nesk, phonon is a dependency of kdelibs, which is a depedency for many kde applications .
pactree -r kdelibs will give you an idea how many things on your system require kdelibs and thus phonon .
if you do have kdebase-workspace instaled, you can run KDE System Settings manually from terminal using systemsettings
OK, thanks, that did the trick:
[root@arch ~]# pactree -r kdelibs
kdelibs
├─libksane
└─libreoffice-still-kde4
[root@arch ~]# pacman -R libreoffice-still-kde4 libksane
checking dependencies...
Packages (2) libksane-4.14.3-1 libreoffice-still-kde4-4.2.8-2
Total Removed Size: 0.54 MiB
:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y
(1/2) removing libksane [####################################################################################] 100%
(2/2) removing libreoffice-still-kde4 [####################################################################################] 100%
[root@arch ~]# pacman -R kdelibs
checking dependencies...
:: vlc optionally requires kdelibs: KDE Solid hardware integration
Packages (1) kdelibs-4.14.3-2
Total Removed Size: 50.35 MiB
:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y
(1/1) removing kdelibs
[root@arch ~]# pacman -R vlc phonon-qt4-vlc
checking dependencies...
Packages (2) phonon-qt4-vlc-0.8.2-1 vlc-2.1.5-5
Total Removed Size: 43.71 MiB
:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y
(1/2) removing phonon-qt4-vlc [####################################################################################] 100%
(2/2) removing vlc