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    Unable to remove or disable Limelight

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      darquegk
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      I accidentally installed Limelight despite not having a compatible PC. Now every time I run a full update it stalls out, incomplete, while searching for limelight PCs. When I tried to uninstall, it merely searched again.

      Is there any way to turn off this automatic search? Barring that, can I uninstall the software without triggering the endless search?

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        backstander @darquegk
        last edited by

        Hey @darquegk
        I'm not at my Pi right now but as I can recall you might be able to uninstall it from the command prompt. With a USB keyboard plugged in, press F4 to exit EmulationStation and you'll want to type something like this:

        sudo apt-get remove limelight-embedded
        or
        sudo apt-get remove moonlight-embedded

        The Limelight project have since changed their name to Moonlight so I'm not sure which version RetroPie uses.

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          darquegk
          last edited by

          Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work- it says "unable to find package."

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            BuZz administrators
            last edited by

            update retropie-setup and you should be able to remove.

            To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              darkwolf86
              last edited by darkwolf86

              updating it didn't work either i went through and did the update everything and when it got to limelight it hung up like the op said. lucky that it was updating last I believe.

              Pulling the cord for a full power off, then going to remove it from the managed packages was able to uninstall it

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                BuZz administrators @darkwolf86
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                @darkwolf86 you did update all installed packages instead of just updating RetroPie-Setup

                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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