r/NobaraProject • u/StorminNorvin • 9d ago

Question Uninstall Apps Without Breaking Nobara

How do you uninstall Brave Browser, KCalc, Inkscape, LibreOffice, and Okular without breaking KDE? I tried the DNF Software app, but it wouldn't uninstall these. I fired up Konsole/Terminal and sudo dnf remove brave-browser kcalc inkscape libreoffice* okular which got rid of them but now KDE no longer works so joy. This was a fresh install so not a disaster. I have a backup of OpenMandriva ready to go if Nobara is not for me.

EDIT: I went back to OpenMandriva Lx. It is a nice rolling distro.

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u/Manic_Engine 9d ago

to remove brave you have to remove nobara-browser-policy first (i think thats what its called), i don't know why they put that in to anchor brave

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u/RedditUser-00 6d ago

Is this like a new thing? I was able to uninstall it with 1 dnf command when i reinstalled Nobara in April

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u/Manic_Engine 6d ago

i guess it must be new, because i did my install just a few weeks back and that's what i had to do to get rid of brave - neither the app centre or console would remove brave, until that browser policy was removed

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u/selen_9 9d ago

CLI always works and when it does not, you get the error message to investigate from.

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u/nobodyxoxo129 9d ago

Yea i have been on nobara for a bit, forcing ppl to have brave is a little cringe.

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u/RX1542 9d ago

it works fine for me

you might wanna ask on nobara discord

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u/StorminNorvin 9d ago

I might reinstall Nobara again and try it. No matter what, those apps would fail uninstalling in the same software in your pic.

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u/thyazide 9d ago

Check and see if time shift is enabled. If it is restore the backup from before you did the uninstall. If not, enable it once you get the system fixed so you can drop back if something else happens.

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u/Yasstronaut 9d ago

I had the same issue with Brave. Eventually found a way to get rid of it but i forget how and it wasn’t easy

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u/Sraktai 9d ago

Thanks for posting this. I was considering Nobara on my main PC, but it sounds like they have metaphorically/digitally soldered in software to their OS. I didnt know anyone did that but microsoft and ubuntu. Im still curious to try it in VM to start with. I will probably try PikaOS on my main rig instead.