Could someone well versed in mage (rpm-ostree) based systems help me to completely remove this package?
Background:
I failed to initialize it with GAPPS and apparently I need to COMPLETELY remove it and reinstall it in order to initialize GAPPS.
I tried to remove it using
sudo rpm-ostree uninstall waydroid
but running
sudo rpm-ostree status -v | grep waydroid
Seems to indicate that waydroid is still there
sudo rpm-ostree status -v | grep waydroid
LayeredPackages: waydroid
~
Using the application launcher search I can see Waydroid as a “blank page icon”
Reinstalling waydroid through rpm-ostree starts the application with the settings and all previously installed apps, which indicates that there are remnants of the package still lingering in my system.
I need to purge waydroid completely and reinstall it anew so that the app prompts initialise as new install so I can load the GAPPS package.
I searched and tried for several hours to accomplish this but have failed to find any solution
Also, before anyone advises on using Distrobox, I’ve tried it. I wrestled with it for 3 solid days.
Didn’t work.
Waydroid apparently needs to be installed in a rootful and unshared container, and this opens an entirely unmanageable (at least for me) can of worms.
The Google authentication is straight out impossible in this scenario.
So, simply put:
How do I COMPLETELY erase/delete/remove a rpm-ostree layered package?
That’s weird, the .desktop file should have been blown away also. The status shows the package is missing, I’d check in ~/.local/share/applications maybe? (I doubt it’ll be in there though)
In that output, there are two deployments, and only the bottom one shows the waydroid package layered (installed). It looks like the top deployment is the active one, without waydroid. You can test by running rpm -qa | grep waydroid to see if it’s installed. (The files in your home directory will remain after you uninstall the package; you need to remove those separately.)
Guys,thank you for your assistance.
As @mel226 and @redshift pointed out, one needs to do manual clean-up after uninstall. @mel226, thanks for the link, it was very helpful
Basically, I needed to follow the instructions in
, but on immutable ostree based system one needs to run
sudo rpm-ostree uninstall waydroid
instead of
sudo apt remove waydroid
In hope that this might be helpful to other noobs, here’s recap of the solution how to uninstall Waydroid (and a noob LX command recap):
To see layered packages run
sudo rpm-ostree status
To search a specific package run
sudo rpm-ostree status | grep PACKAGENAME
Remove the package by running
sudo rpm-ostree uninstall waydroid
Manually remove left over fifles (shortcuts, settings, etc)