Unable to uninstall packages installed via URL

[balupton]

Problem

I did:

soar install --no-verify https://api.beeper.com/desktop/download/linux/arm64/stable/com.automattic.beeper.desktop

which installed it fine it seems, however the fedora gnome launcher does not show its icon properly.

However, I recognised that it would not open, because I used the arm64 url instead of the x86 url, as doing:

soar install --no-verify 'https://beeper-desktop.download.beeper.com/builds/Beeper-4.2.892-x86_64.AppImage'

worked and opens fine, sans for the same icon issue

I've tried several ways to uninstall, and just couldn't figure it out.

Expected behavior

# soar remove https://api.beeper.com/desktop/download/linux/arm64/stable/com.automattic.beeper.desktop
[WARN] Package https://api.beeper.com/desktop/download/linux/arm64/stable/com.automattic.beeper.desktop is not installed.

despite doing install saying it is installed:

# soar install --no-verify 'https://beeper-desktop.download.beeper.com/builds/Beeper-4.2.892-x86_64.AppImage'
[WARN] beeper#beeper-desktop.download.beeper.com.builds.beeper-4.2.892-x86_64.appimage:local (4.2.892) is already installed - skipping
Hint: Use --force to reinstall, or --show to see other variants
No packages to install

# soar info
com.automattic.beeper.desktop-unknown:local (2026-06-05 08:55:46) (253.92 MiB)
beeper-4.2.892:local (2026-06-05 09:00:28) (250.84 MiB)

╭──────────────────────────────╮
│ Summary                      │
├─────────────┬────────────────┤
│ ✓ Installed │ 2 (504.76 MiB) │
╰─────────────┴────────────────╯

# soar remove com.automattic.beeper.desktop-unknown:local
[WARN] Package com.automattic.beeper.desktop-unknown:local is not installed.

# soar remove com.automattic.beeper.desktop-unknown
[WARN] Package com.automattic.beeper.desktop-unknown is not installed.

I also tried deleting it from "/home/balupton/.local/share/soar/packages but that seems to have messed up soar, so I restored them.

[QaidVoid]

For uninstall, you'd need to only provide package name, or version separated by @ instead of -.

soar r com.automattic.beeper.desktop

# OR
soar r com.automattic.beeper.desktop@unknown

[balupton]

Thanks, would it be possible to have it be able to uninstall via URL. That would make it easier for me to implement soar downstream.

And could there be consistency in soar info and soar r for the ids? The former uses -unknown and the latter uses @unknown