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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