Once installed cannot uninstall PureOS app from the store. I assume these are flatpacks but flatpack commands in the terminal do not work.
Ideas how to get rid of apps installed manually?
e.g. uninstall Evolution
If you installed at the shell with
apt install package
then uninstall at the shell with
apt remove package
(remove software but keep any related system configuration or settings)
or
apt purge package
(remove software and related system configuration or settings)
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actually installed on poureos store thats what is confusing. the pureos store says no packages to remove even though it shows as installed eg âEvolutionâ
If you have Librem 5 Goodies installed (do you?) then (on my phone) that depends on parts of Evolution.
Probably best to leave it.
i have goodies installed, for some reason though nothing uninstalls, that was just an example, âPassword Safeâ also doesnt uninstall.
I guess: Find out the exact package name and use one of the above apt commands. At least you might get a clearer idea of why it doesnât want to uninstall, if it still refuses to.
That worked for me, it would be nice if the PureOS store made it easier to see which apps can be uninstalled from within the pureos store and which require apt terminal function.
- suggestion to have an âiâ icon for each installed up that shows things like package name, installed location, installed manually through PureOS store, installed manually through terminal, installed as part of PureOS package install.
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I havenât looked under the covers but I would guess that
- it canât tell whether a package was installed via the GUI or installed via the terminal
- it can tell whether the package was installed manually (explicitly) or installed to satisfy dependencies for something else
We also have to allow the possibility that what you are experiencing is just a bug.
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The PureOS Store is not very good, needs work. Thoughts so far, of the current versionâŚ
- if updates need to be âdist-upgradeâ it doesnât seem to be able to update
- itâs not able to remove software
- if there are dependency issues, it gives no solution or info
- categories are slow to load or donât load at all (no apps appear after waiting), and the categories themselves are not intuitive (more would be better - there already are some âOther Categoriesâ, which are empty)
- canât see what updates have been applied, when and what changed (only available when updating)
- activating (warning) and managing flatpaks, snaps or other PPAs should be baked in to one - this is not it (would be nice to be able to set boundaries to apps when or even before installing them)⌠and on that note, I think there should be some kind of guide and link to managing webapps too (âone stop shopâ of everything app related)
- and as was already mentioned, there seems be no settings, such as if and when to check and possibly download an possibly install various updates
- no indication if new apps are available or if new adaptive apps are available
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I want to add some further issues:
- Going in PureOSStore --> Software Repositories under Packges I can see Byzantinum + sceurity + updates. In the subtitle it is written: 0 applications installed (which is not the case -.-)
- I added Flathub so the repo is also mentioned in PureOSStore --> Software Repositories, but the slider button is inactive
- Going in GNOME Settings --> Applications no applications are listed
Another question:
Is it possible to purge PureOS Store without crashing the system because of its dependencies? I tried apt remove instead apt purge and also saw a lot of necessary apps which will be removed too. So, finally I decided not to delete it.
Hey there,
I could resolve the last point of my old post. You can find the problem here: GNOME Control Center - No Applications
The solution is to install malcontent: sudo apt update && sudo apt install malcontent
My system at the moment of the problem: PureOS Byzantinum + Kernel 6.1 + gnome-control-center 38.4-1pureos7
Sadly I have not found any solution for the other two points I marked in my old post. See what the future bringsâŚMaybe some app upgrades in PureOS itself XD
How do I uninstall cameracalib.desktop? What is the package name? Using apt list camera or apt search cameracalib did not work.
This app also installed a lot of additional apps: 2D SLAM dem, kinect-stereo-,Navigation loc, Rawlog Viewer, Reactive Navi, etc
What is odd is that typing camera-calib in terminal opens the program but typing sudo apt remove camera-calib says
** E: Unable to locate package camera-calib**
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I guess you need to look for a package name containing something like âmrpt-appsâ or âlibmrpt-devâ
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dpkg -S /path-to/the-specific.desktop
The directory is usually /usr/share/applications
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Yeah, I canât find it in there. What is the name of the PureOS Store? I am thinking to launch the store with sudo from the terminal and then maybe I can uninstall it.
Iâve noticed that usually apps that require sudo are the ones that canât be uninstalled from the store.
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The things is, I want to uninstall all the apps with a single command. I donât want to manually uninstall every app that was installed with this package, the risk of removing something that is essential to the phone is too big.
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What does that mean? The command that I outlined gives no output? an error? What was the command that you typed? What was the error message?
Note that that command doesnât change anything on your system. It just answers the question âWhat is the package name?â
Once you have uninstalled the actual package, you can use sudo apt autoremove to see what can consequently be removed. However if you are nervous about that, you might want to do the âautoremoveâ twice i.e. once to get a list of packages to post here (and hence not confirmed) and then the second time in order to go ahead, if the list of packages seems appropriate.
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Thank you for your reply sir irvinewade.
It outputs:
thunderbird, mrpt-apps, librem5-goodies, yad, firefox-esr, keepassxc, gnome-weather,
gnome-user-share, gnome-usage, gnome-terminal, nautilus, gnome-session-common,
gnome-maps, gnome-initial-setup, yelp, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-control-center,
gnome-contacts, gnome-clocks, gnome-chess, gnome-calls, gnome-calculator,
gnome-bluetooth, gnome-calendar, gnome-2048, gkbd-capplet, geoclue-2.0, gedit,
geary, evolution-data-server, gcr, evince, epiphany-browser, eog, desktop-file-utils,
deja-dup, chatty, phoc, python3.9, rygel, librem5-base-defaults, notification-daemon,
millipixels, xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, pureos-store, network-manager-gnome, vim-common,
phosh, phosh-mobile-settings, squeekboard, kgx: /usr/share/applications
EDIT: Formatting
EDIT2: It might be (and probably is) that the app in not from the âofficialâ PureOS repository. Earlier I run the command flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo to get access to more apps.
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Try uninstalling this.
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Unfortunately the wrong command.
You specify the actual .desktop file that you are trying to uninstall.
So probably: dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/cameracalib.desktop
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