Method

PackageKitTaskremove_packages_sync

since: 0.5.3

Declaration [src] 

PkResults*
pk_task_remove_packages_sync (
  PkTask* task,
  gchar** package_ids,
  gboolean allow_deps,
  gboolean autoremove,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  PkProgressCallback progress_callback,
  gpointer progress_user_data,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Remove a package (optionally with dependancies) from the system. If allow_deps is set to FALSE, and other packages would have to be removed, then the transaction would fail.

Warning: this function is synchronous, and may block. Do not use it in GUI applications.

Available since: 0.5.3

Parameters

package_ids

Type: An array of gchar*

A null terminated array of package_id structures such as “hal;0.0.1;i386;fedora;”.

The array must be NULL-terminated.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
Each element is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
allow_deps

Type: gboolean

If other dependent packages are allowed to be removed from the computer.

autoremove

Type: gboolean

If other packages installed at the same time should be tried to remove.

cancellable

Type: GCancellable

A GCancellable or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
progress_callback

Type: PkProgressCallback

The function to run when the progress changes.

progress_user_data

Type: gpointer

Data to pass to progress_callback.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: PkResults

A PkResults object, or NULL for error.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.