Please help me understand what I did wrong (I killed my whole OS while trying to uninstall/reinstall Emby)

[raevengel 0]

Hi!

 

I need some help understanding what went wrong because I toasted my system tonight. I want to make it clear that I take full responsibility for what happened and in no way am I saying that this is the fault of Emby or my distro or anything else, etc. But I am wicked confused.

 

In recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed from Mint. I’ve used Linux for years but am no advanced user. I was trying to learn more about using zypper. I needed to uninstall a Emby because I was having trouble getting it to work and instead of installing via the rpm, I wanted to install via the official repository. I searched to find out how to uninstall Emby from these forums and also read that to uninstall using zypper, I should use the command:

sudo zypper rm emby-service 
(I read one can also interchange remove for the rm command)

I typed this, it said it was going to remove 114 files and I said, Y. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to figure out how to increase my font size which is really small on our 4K TV and I missed the fact that instead of just uninstalling emby-server, it also removed all of KDE, all of the KDE apps (Dolphin, etc that comes with KDE), and a bunch of other things, too. Wayyyy too many to even know everything that’s gone. Obviously, I’m reinstalling from scratch tomorrow but I want to understand why this command went wrong because I can’t see what did it. It seems like it should have worked properly and I don’t want to be scared to try basic command in the future for fear of something similar happening. Someone said that Emby must have been a dependency of KDE and that’s why it all installed but I said Emby has nothing to do with any desktop environment/window manager and works on any of them. Emby shouldn’t be pulling dependencies from KDE/vice versa, right? In fact, I’ve only run it on Cinnamon in Mint thus far (until I switched to OpenSUSE) so nothing to do with KDE at all.

 

Could anyone please help me understand why this happened, what I did wrong, etc? Was my syntax incorrect? Something else? Thanks so much in advance!

[Luke 42078]

Hi, are you sure that's all you did?

Also installing via the rpm is the only method that we offer. What repository were you going to use?

[raevengel 0]

Yes, I am absolutely positive that’s all that I did. Literally nothing more. Just that command uninstalled all of the KDE desktop environment and all of the KDE apps and dependencies. Someone at the OpenSUSE forum said that if that was the case, emby was dependency of KDE but I assured them that wasn’t the case as it’s nothing to do with it at all. I’m a little scared that it installed everything like that with no good reason.

As far as repos, there are some articles stating how to use emby with repos so that it auto updates with all the other packages. 

This is one of the pages talking about Emby repo:

https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aemby&package=emby-server

https://websetnet.net/install-emby-media-server-linux/

http://www.vassox.com/linux-general/installing-emby-server-from-repository-on-centos-7-rhel/

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/emby/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/

 

I ended up creating another post asking if I could install from repos like this and I think someone else was asking on the same thread as well (either here or reddit, not sure). I just thought I’d answer your question here, since it was asked. 

[Luke 42078]

Right, that's our old opensuse repository that is out of date. The officially supported install methods are those that are listed on our website:

https://emby.media/download

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.