I installed hyprland to try it out but it was too much for me so now I want to uninstall it, but it is just refusing to uninstall.
When I try yay -Rns hyprland it gives me error target not found. I tried yay -R, pacman -R and -Rns, this thing just doesnt want to go away. What do I do
How did you install it ? Basically, that’s how you should uninstall it. The possibilities are endless, however, you can probably get a hint by querying the package database, pacman -Qs hyprland.
Once you have the name right, you can remove it.
I’m tapping hyprland-git
I installed it using hyprland-git. This is so embarrassing, I really forgot how I installed this thing even though I researched about it for hours before installing it…
In the future, you can search for installed packages with a combo of Grep and Pacman:
pacman -Q | grep -A 0 -E "(hypr|xdg|wofi)"
You can add more packages as needed by separating them with |.
You should probably still do this because there are likely other packages you installed for Hyprland, but won’t need for whatever DE/WC/WM you switch to.
which hyprland
then that’s the one you uninstall
On Arch, this command may not help you find which package you need to uninstall.
For instance, if the OP ran that command, it would return /usr/bin/hyprland. When they go to uninstall it by typing sudo pacman -R hyprland they would get the same error they posted, because the actual package name is hyprland-git.
The which command is mostly only useful for finding the location of a package on Arch Linux.
And Pacman can do that as well with pacman -Ql hyprland, which gives a lot more info.
hyprland /usr/
hyprland /usr/bin/
hyprland /usr/bin/Hyprland
hyprland /usr/bin/hyprctl
hyprland /usr/bin/hyprland
hyprland /usr/bin/hyprpm
hyprland /usr/include/
hyprland /usr/include/hyprland/
hyprland /usr/include/hyprland/protocols/
hyprland /usr/include/hyprland/protocols/alpha-modifier-v1.hpp
hyprland /usr/include/hyprland/protocols/cursor-shape-v1.hpp
AND WAY MORE LINES
Or by using pacman -Qo hyprland which tells you the owner of the package, and tells you the actual package name. So use this instead, if you prefer not to use Grep for some reason.
/usr/bin/hyprland is owned by hyprland 0.47.2-2
/usr/bin/paru is owned by paru-git 2.0.4.r61.g55efaab-1
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