Dose my Librem 5 have a broken installation and do I need to reflash?

Hardware Librem 5
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sudo apt autoremove is in my ternimal record too.

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unmet dependencies for sudo apt purge phosh-tour.
So sudo apt --fix-broken install. Come up with error paste subprocessing was killed by signal (Broken pipe).

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I just installed it myself (I had uninstalled it some time ago) and then removed it again just now with no problem.

Is your system fully updated?

You might try this:

sudo apt install --reinstall phosh-tour

then try to remove it again.

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Nope, sudo apt install --reinstall phosh-tour. Error Unable to locate package phosh–tour. I have also try uninstall chess, wheather. but only thought the pureos store.

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apt search tour
(to see if it can even find phosh-tour.)

sudo apt remove gnome-chess
If that doesn’t work, then Chess might have been installed as a meta package of games.
apt search games
(to see if you have gnome-games installed.)

And:
sudo apt remove gnome-weather
(Not “wheather,” in case you typed it wrong.)

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None of that work. type remove commands and tour, chess, weather are still there.

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Can you take a screenshot and post it on the forum? Maybe we will notice something that might be overlooked?

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One member used dpkg to remove some applications:

So:
sudo dpkg -r package_name

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Got to uninstall phosh-tour, gnome-westher, but not gnome-chess

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apt search games
and
apt search chess
to see which is actually installed.
Then remove if you want.

By the way, if you search the internet for:
“subprocessing was killed by signal (Broken pipe)”
you might find some useful info.

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Both phosh-chess and gnome-chess are there. Thank you for help

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Are they both marked “installed?”

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Thanks?

As stated, I tried dpkg and it did not remove

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phosh-chess, and gnome-chess wont uninstalled. phosh chess says isn’t installed. Thanks for the help, so far. Something better than nothing.

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@fmotta
I’m not sure what you mean.
You said:
“Actually using dpkg I removed - firefox-esr - weather - librem 5 tour - chess phosh-games tracker cawbird”

Have I offended you or something?

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And does apt search games show anything as installed?

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their a phosh-games, gnome-games, and phosh-chess.

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But which is labeled installed?

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I have established an uninstall procedure that works for me most of the time. I do the steps below, in order.

1.) If I install something, I uninstall it using the same tool/method.
2.) For things that I didn’t install myself, I attempt uninstalling in the following order.
3.) PureOS Store
4.) If that doesn’t work, try the Snap Store.
5.) If that doesn’t work, Try using the Flatpak tool.
6.) If that doesn’t work, try sudo apt autoremove.
7.) If the icon persists after uninstall, give it a few reboots before troubleshooting. Test execute to see if the app really runs after uninstalling the app if the icon persists. Uninstall reinstall can be problematic. It seems that you can have two to three different instances of the exact same program installed and working at the same time. I suspect they get installed in to separate locations, depending on where they were installed from. Sometimes unistalling one instance leaves behind a newly broken instance that can’t be removed. So if I try everything and even sudo apt autoremove doesn’t work, I avoid using any more powerful of command lines to force the uninstall. So far after several dozen installs and uninstalls, I only have one broken program that won’t uninstall.

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