Can I remove the Electron desktops, 25, 28 and 29?

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I have the endeavor build that support Nvidia graphics cards, and I have a lower end card a 6550 with Turing architecture. I just use the card for photo processing.

On a regular update, it’s trying to suddenly update the Electron 25 version, which I didn’t know was in there, and on looking, I have electron 28 and 29 as well. My understanding is that this is for building applications using web browsers as a base, and it has been loading for 2 hours now. What a pain. Can I pacman them away without breaking something?

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Use pacman -Qi and find out what needs them. If nothing needs them, then they can likely be removed without issue.

When is the last time you cleared orphans?

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Generally speaking, you could run

pactree -r X

to see if something in your system is dependent on X or not.

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On this machine it’s been awhile for clearing orphans, but it’s a backup machine with little use.

These electron desktops are monsters, the first phase of download is 30GB, for something I’ll never use, and it isn’t anywhere near done.

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If you want my advice, remove all of them, and everything that requires them.

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Everything after pacstrap is BLOAT

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[markal@markal-optiplex390 ~]$ pactree -r X
error: package ‘X’ not found
[markal@markal-optiplex390 ~]$

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X was meant as an example. Use the name of the package you want to check.

For example: pactree -r glibc

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electron25
[markal@markal-optiplex390 ~]$ pactree -r electron29
electron29
└─electron
└─geogebra
[markal@markal-optiplex390 ~]$ pactree -r electron28
electron28
[markal@markal-optiplex390 ~]$

I could uninstall geogebra. It’s cool, but I never really use it. Only electron29 is used for anything, electron25 & electron28 are just there. I will get rid of all of them.

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I assume it’s safe to interrupt the download. Haven’t done it yet, but it looks like it has hours to go.

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What download?

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Oh well. I tried to copy the current terminal screen. It would not copy. Some quirk on this Nvidia system I havn’t encountered before. And the terminal screen vanished without me trying to kill it.

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Now it’s back, hell. Downloading a copy of chromiumj browser foer this electron desktop

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I just closed it, will reboot and see what happens.

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What? Why? Didn’t you say you wanted to remove Electron? I’m utterly confused…

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It seems like the upgrade to the Electron desktop I didn’t know I had, started as a normal system upgrade, just running paru, and at the end it started doing all this extra stuff. It was obvious that it was trying to upgrade this unneeded package I didn’t know I had and has been taking hours.

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O.K. the machine came back just fine. So I will pacman -Rns Geogebra, electron25, 28 and 29, one at a time.

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You’re probably building some huge package from the AUR.

You ought to be a bit more aware of what is going on. It’s not sufficient to just type paru and answer y to everything.

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Could be true. But nothing was damaged. I just have some packages I didn’t intentionally install and don’t want or need. I don’t claim to understand all the pieces to this system.