Can zsh be uninstalled completely?

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Manjaro KDE use zsh by default in konsole, and in konsole, there is a profile for zsh, which can’t be deleted. So can zsh be uninstalled completely?

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Yes, it can be, but you better make sure first that you create an additional Konsole profile that invokes bash.

The profiles that can’t be deleted are only read-only because they are root-owned, and pacman does itself run with root privileges when installing/uninstalling, so it is capable of deleting those profiles.

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Log when uninstalling zsh

could not satisfy dependencies:
- remove zsh breaks dependency `zsh` required by manjaro-kde-settings
- remove zsh breaks dependency `zsh>=4.3.9` required by zsh-syntax-highlighting
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Been watching this thread with interest…, as it may apply to other packages. I believe, all things zsh-related can not removed at this time. I suppose a user could prevent the installation of zsh files via pacman.conf NoExtract, but would this break an application that doesn’t check if a file exists before trying to use it. I’ve used this method for locales and fonts. But sometimes it is easier to leave things as the distro-deems, but change the configuration.

Some of the details.

You can always see dependency information prior to a remove with any of the following commands:

pacman -Sii zsh # -S in repository

pacman -Qii zsh # -Q installed

pactree -r zsh

It looks like all dependencies are zsh related, so they could probably be removed. The only one I’d question is manjaro-kde-settings. You can see the files that manjaro-kde-settings provides with:

pacman -Ql manjaro-kde-settings

I have the mlocate package installed, so I can run updatedb and find files with the locate command. It can be run manually, but there is also a systemd timer. I also run pacman -Fy whenever I do an upgrade. This updates db.files in /var/lib/pacman/sync. You can search for package owners with pacman -Fx .

There are a number of files under /usr/share/zsh

pacman -Qo /usr/share/zsh

locate zsh

pacman -Fx /usr/share/zsh/

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