Cannot Remove miraclecast

[NewUser]

Hi There,
I was trying to install miraclecast to use with my Samsung TV. Not only it did not work but now I cannot remove the package.
*I know the snapshot I took says Rns instead or Rsn, I ty it and still did not work:

[Bink]

What’s the output of:

yay -Q | grep miraclecast

Also try:

yay -R miraclecast-git

pacman is for use with the official repos, not the Arch User Repository (AUR), which is where miraclecast-git is found.

[UncleSpellbinder]

miraclecast-git is an AUR package, pacman won’t work. Should remove it like this: yay -R miraclecast-git

EDIT: Beat me to it, @Bink

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@UncleSpellbinder

EDIT: Beat me to it, @Bink

[xircon]

yay to install, but pacman will remove:

sudo pacman -R miraclecast-git                                                               23:31:44
checking dependencies...

Package (1)      Old Version    Net Change

miraclecast-git  339.937747f-1   -0.40 MiB

Total Removed Size:  0.40 MiB

:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing miraclecast-git                                                  [---------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/2) Reloading system bus configuration...

[NewUser]

@Bink

yay -R miraclecast-git

wow.Thanks for the quick reply!
So, there was not output for yay- Q, and error:target not found for the second one.
Does that mean I did not install it correctly? I went in to the package and used makepkg -si

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@NewUser

So, there was not output for yay- Q …
Does that mean I did not install it correctly?

Yeah, it wouldn’t appear to be installed.

You might also just clean things up, as a matter of housekeeping? This’ll remove orphan packages (dependencies no longer associated with any other packages).

yay -Yc

[NewUser]

Ok, so I definitely did not install it using yay.
I’m gonna have to do some reading on how to do that.
Thanks a lot!

[UncleSpellbinder]

@NewUser

Ok, so I definitely did not install it using yay.

Not sure how you installed it, then. Because pacman cannot install from the AUR.

❯ sudo pacman -S miraclecast-git
[sudo] password for wombat: 
error: target not found: miraclecast-git
❯

AUR packages can only be installed via AUR helpers… yay, paru, pikaur, and the like.

EDIT: Sorry, I missed this…

@NewUser

I went in to the package and used makepkg -si

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@NewUser

I went in to the package and used makepkg -si

@NewUser, without using an AUR helper, this is the correct way to install it. You’d need to read any output though, to confirm it installed without issue (eg: required depenencies not installed).

If using yay, it should be as simple as running:

yay -S miraclecast-git

Being a -git package though, it’ll be pulling from the latest commit, regardless of stability. It’s not unusual for -git packages to have a build or runtime issue.