How can I remove waydroid?
Installing it was far too easy given that there is no GUI button to uninstall it just as easily, nor manage it in the exact same way as Distro containers (which all come with an easy uninstall button). This seems like an oversight. Much like the lack of pointers on how to properly start the Waydroid desktop with the many commands to do so such waydroid session start, and waydroid first-launch. Leaving many users on these #đâsupport threads understandably confused about it, because they just access it using the Settings app through the BlendOS System app.
Rambling aside, Waydroid works just fine. All of the commands to access and manage waydroid such as 'waydroid show-full-ui' work. I just simply regret installing it as I don't know of any x86_x64 repo's where I can actually grab Android packages that are solely intended for Android on Desktop and not mobile architectures.
I would like to remove it now. I have been researching how for quite a long time now with no luck. Things like the blend command (which doesn't list waydroid as a container!), and the system.yaml config, do not come with instruction for this. bkpg isn't installed by default.
I'm at my whits end for removing waydroid from my BlendOS system. I wish there was a GUI uninstall button in the BlendOS System app for Waydroid like there is for every containerized distrobution, or even a clearly defined CLI method using the blend command.
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If you want to remove it youâll have to fork the base track or add a pacman -R command to the commands: block
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Waydroid manages itself as a container, itâs not part of blend
Waydroid is actually always installed as itâs part of the base track
Solution
If you want to remove it youâll have to fork the base track or add a pacman -R command to the commands: block
The packages should be waydroid and waydroid-image
Also waydroid can run ARM apps via a translator
a pacman -R command to system.yaml ?
yes
So what does the button to initialize it within the System application do?
waydroid init
Waydroid command which sets everything up
I presume initialization takes up more storage space?
Then blend-settings enables software rendering if youâre on NVIDIA
The waydroid-image package is over 800 MB
it contains a full copy of lineageOS
Alright. Ty. Cheers.