Need some help updating the OS and Uninstalling an app

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Hello Everyone!
I am new to Manjaro (installed it 2 days ago)
and I am facing 2 issues atm
1st one: is that I can’t update system (21.08.11)
through the package manager it says searching for update and then does nothing afte.
2nd one: can’t uninstall an app
need some help, I installed app called LBRY and then uninstalled it (from the store)
but it is still there somehow so if someone can help me figure out how to remove it
I tried to right-click->show details but it just open the store nothing more
I tried to remove it through the terminal sudo pacman -R lbry and got this
“error: target not found: lbry”

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What error messages are shown, when pacman -Syyu on console.

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no error
just this message " there is nothing to do"
tho it still shows that update available dot over the icon at the top right corner

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Hi @Attia, and welcome!

Please open a terminal, run the following and provide the output here:

pamac upgrade

Also, to remove an app, in the terminal again, run:

pamac remove <applicationName>

Where <applicationName> is the name of the application you wish to remove.

Also, I recommend using pamac for managing software instead of pacman as it takes care of more things.

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for the first upgrade command I get this

Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.

but it still shows the update file if I go to the package manager

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for the second command

pamac remove <applicationName>

Error: target not found: lbry
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That’s probably not full app name. I don’t know which you have in mind but there is several lbry apps in AUR:

$ pamac search lbry -q
lbry-app-bin
lbry-desktop-git
lbry-sync-ytdl
lbry-vault
lbrycrd
lbrynet-bin
fastlbry-terminal-git
quickmedia-git

Chose which you want remove and do pamac remove <appname>

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I believe this would happen when you update with

sudu pacman -Syu

And not pamac. Because the updates notifications might be caused by AUR/Snap/Flatpac, which pamac supports, but pacman doesn’t.

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it doesn’t show anything after typing the following command
it just starts the next command line

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Or, if you’s rather, do:

pamac search lbry

The installed one will be marked with an [Installed] label.

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Or search only in installed apps:

pamac search lbry --installed
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AFAIK pending updates are applied at installation. And since there has been no update in the last two days…

What do you mean by “it is still there”?

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I’d still get the same output

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
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I did this and it shows nothing but just starts the next command line

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and this too shows nothing but starts the next line of command
tho something that might help,
it starts automatically when I open up the laptop so is there a start up apps where I can search on or something like this?

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I mean the updates are still in the package manager if I open it it shows that there are available updates
and what does pending updates mean

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So you don’t have lbry installed. If @Mirdarthos command also show nothing, that mean you have also disabled AUR and/or flatpak or snap (if there also is this app).

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but it is still in my apps list I swear xD

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Where? I don’t believe if you don’t show us.

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how to show you? xD
I can’t attach a screenshot