Package Manager Woes

Software Native
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Hi All!

I’m trying to create a package for my app. Somewhere along the line I made a mistake in my .PackageInfo file and now what I have are binaries deployed that I cannot remove. Creating a working package does not remove the binaries even though they have the same names (located in bin and apps). When I first made the error, I tried uninstalling the package via HaikuDepot, but that failed, presumably due to the same error.

So, how do I remove files that were installed manually? I really don’t want to wipe my whole system to get rid of them.

Thanks in advance!
–Mike

2

The files doesn’t extracted at install, they just virtually attached to the live system. So if you remove the hpkg from the /boot/system/packages folder it will remove every problematic files automatically.

3

Interesting. I did that, but it did not remove the files. ;(

4

Oh shoot! Hold that…I rebooted and the files went away!

Thank you!!

5

you need to press strg permanently before you have permission to remove a file from the system/packaged folder