Can not uninstall protonup

So a few days ago i installed protonup from the terminal and now when i am trying to remove it…umm for some reason it isnt uninstalling

I have tried 4 different methods but to no avail →

[megumi@Akimegumi ~]$ sudo pacman -Rs protonup
error: target not found: protonup

[megumi@Akimegumi ~]$ sudo pacman -Rns protonup
error: target not found: protonup

[megumi@Akimegumi ~]$ sudo pacman -R protonup
error: target not found: protonup

[megumi@Akimegumi ~]$ yay -R protonup
error: target not found: protonup
→ exit status 1

Obviously, protonup is not the name of the package.

$ pacman -Q | grep proton

might reveal the name of the package you want to uninstall.

Pudge

try
$ yay -Ss protonup
aur/protonup-ng-git 0.1.4.r2.gf60ee76-1 (+2 1.05)
Install and Update Proton-GE, a version for the new naming convention
aur/protonup-git 0.1.4.r2.gf60ee76-1 (+5 0.22)
Install and Update Proton-GE
aur/protonup-qt 2.7.4-1 (+20 5.85)
Install and manage Proton-GE and Luxtorpeda for Steam and Wine-GE for Lutris

i tried it and it showed me this error =>

[megumi@Akimegumi ~]$ sudo pacman -Q | grep proton:
Sorry, try again.

The : shouldn’t be on the end.

Pudge

Which command did you use to install it?

@Endeavor1

Many here would like to know how exactly you installed it.
Anyway, you can see the package name with many ways, e.g.

yay -Qs protonup
pahis  # then search: /protonup
grep protonup /var/log/pacman.log | tail -n1

This happens when you pick from a list and then do not remember the name, I do it all the time (I blame my age!!!).

As far as i can see there are only 3 protonup packages. :thinking:

protonup-git
protonup-ng-git
protonup-qt

Are you sure you used pacman to install it and not some other package manager like pip?

The package you are normally using for protonup is protonup-qt, as @ricklinux already mentioned.

Therefor your syntax should be:

sudo pacman -R protonup-qt

Edit: Should you have taken one of the others then you have to adjust it of course. @ricklinux has listed them all so you can just copy them to try them out :slight_smile:

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