[Gambas-user] Problem: can not uninstall/purge GAMBAS on Ubuntu 20.04

[Bruce Steers]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 at 14:35, Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 at 12:58, Peter Kostrz <peter.kostrz at cofex.ch> wrote:
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>> Hello
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>> Made a mistake and added ambas PPA in UBUNTU 20.04 - after an update nothing worked anymore. Then I saw that I have not to use ppa update in 20.04
>> Uninstall does not work It fails when calling gambas3-runtime (new 3.17.90 searched, but 3.14.3 found). fix broken does not work, remove and clean does not as well
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>> udo apt remove gambas3
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  gambas3-dev : Depends: gambas3-dev-tools but it is not going to be installed
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> I would try the following...
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> # remove PPAs
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> sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:gambas-team/gambas-daily
> sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:gambas-team/gambas3
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> # Purge all of gambas3
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> sudo apt-get purge --fix-broken gambas3*
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> # update apt and reinstall
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> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install gambas3*
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Correction:
use quotes when purging/installing all of  gambas3* using the asterix *.
Eg.
apt-get purge --fix-broken "gambas3*"
apt-get-install "gambas3*"
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