Comments on: How to Use XBPS Package Manager on Void Linux

By: Bobby Borisov

Bobby Borisov — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:18:00 +0000

Hi Steve,

There is no difference between uninstalling a package installed directly from Void’s repo and one built from the source. In both cases, the xbps-remove command is used.

Thank you for reading Linuxiac!

Best,
Bobby

By: Steve Hill

Steve Hill — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:22:07 +0000

Thank you for these articles. I’m considering moving to Void from Arch-based Endeavour. Your articles are really helping with the decision-making process. Can you explain how to uninstall something installed from source. Once you’ve built the binary using xbps-src and installed with xbps-install, do you uninstall using xbps-remove as you would for a package in the repos? Or is there another way? Thank you.

By: Bobby Borisov

Bobby Borisov — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 13:25:48 +0000

In reply to Eric Adams. Hi Eric, First, go to the "void-packages" directory and run "git pull". Then, you can use the “./xbps-src update-sys” command. It automatically rebuilds and updates all source packages in your Void Linux system that are outdated.

By: Eric Adams

Eric Adams — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 05:29:08 +0000

Hello and thank you for the excellent set of articles on Void. I found them invaluable in getting started with the distro. I have a question about the source packages. Is there a simple way to keep them up to date? I assume that every so often I will need to refresh the git repo and then somehow compare what has been updated? If you have any advice on this I would love to hear it. Thanks again!