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What am I doing wrong (OpenSuse)? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been trying Tumbleweed for my gaming needs and so far it seems to be working relatively well. My issue is about removed packages. When I first installed TW, I removed quite a few packages I did not want (KSudoku, LibreOffice, and a few others). It has been a little since I've turned on my PC but yesterday I noticed that KSudoku, LibreOffice, and really all other apps I thought I had uninstalled (sudo zypper remove ) were back on my desktop. I thought "maybe I forgot to uninstalled them in the first place" so I went through and removed all the unwanted stuff again. Since it had been awhile I updated my OS right after uninstalling those packages. After the update (sudo zypper up), I rebooted and immediately noticed that all those packages I had just removed were back (AGAIN). So WTF... am I not removing those unwanted packages "properly"? Why do they keep coming back after updates? How can I prevent this?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Open Yast and mark those packages as taboo. That way they'll never reinstalled again after an update. Use zypper dup for updating tumbleweed. The zypper up its for updating openSUSE leap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Took me a bit to see these patterns/packages (mainly because I've never used Yast). I can see these patterns and the software that they install, is it better to use Yast to remove the packages and the patterns and mark them as "Don't install that sh.t again" or through cli?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Should not matter, whether you use zypper (CLI) or YaST. They use the same backend code (ZYpp).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yast2 Gui GTK just makes it easier because you can click on the games pattern to toggle delete, update, lock, etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Thank for the dup vs up tip. I found it odd having to do both.