last night i "accidentally" (in a lets see what happens sorta way) used gdebi to install an .ipk to my mint9 box (.ipk was to play palmpre games on my n900) but now i cannot remove it (never used ipk before) an google on leads me to mameo/n900 sites an terminal spits it dummy:
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I cannot uninstall Firefox, nor can I uninstall Chromium; one always stays if the other is uninstalled. For example, if I remove Firefox, Chromium will appear in its place and vice versa. This has got to be one of the weirdest bugs I've ever seen on Ubuntu! So, how can I uninstall both web browsers?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just installed Linux Mint Debian on my computer and I (heart) it! Everything works perfect but two thing bothers me.
After I updated my system I have some programs I want to uninstall like Evolution, but when I try to, gnome-core and gnome-control-center is deleted too. Is there a way to make it NOT remove those, like a general method?
The next thing thats bothers me is when I uninstall Firefox, another browser is automatically installed. How do I remove firefox without something else is automatically installed?
My interest in Linux started in 99-ish, with Slackware, of course. I gave up on it because my English and computer skills weren't as good so I couldn't make ppp run After that I've tried Red Hat, Knoppix for experimenting mostly. More recently I've tried OpenSUSE and Ubuntu (which were somewhat strange and Windowsified) and then went back to Slackware because I've read and heard that this is what Linux should be.My current Linux "achievements" are compiling a kernel (2.6.34 now, from 2.6.29-6 stock) which made me learn why VESA console support and sky2 device driver are important Ummm, also running Samba and mediatomb and disabling PCMCIA and ACPI crap from init scripts.
After the latest reinstall of Slack, I downloaded the gcc 4.5 source, compiled it and installed it. So while browsing around with pkgtool, I noticed it still says gcc is 4.3.3 so I am planning on removing gcc with pkgtool (after compiling the source) and then, install it again. Which leads me to my question: how to uninstall a program I've installed via "make install" I vaguely recall few sources that also had "make uninstall" but I also tried it on something (I know "something" is really helpful) few days ago and it said there was no rule for 'uninstall'So, how do I uninstall stuff?Obviously reading what "make install" installs and erasing it manually will be a one albeit crude way of doing so.
I'm still struggling with the LFS and don't understand where to find the "make uninstall" file for software I've installed that I may uninstall it.
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and understand installing/removing .deb packages - that's straightforward. The problem I'm having are files that end in ".sh" or ".bin" , ".run" etc. or, the tar balls I download (I guess I would be compiling from source if I use these?)
I know sometimes they have an option like "--uninstall" but not all of them do. I know about the "make uninstall" command but this is where I get confused. Let's say, for instance, I download "foo.tar.bz2", decompress it, configure, make, install - is the "make uninstall" installed into the same folder where the rest of the program is installed, or was it created in the folder where I ran "./configure"? I've been looking in the folders of installed applications and none of them have this "make uninstall" file I keep reading about.
Is there a procedure I should follow as a rule of thumb when installing from .tar file? (Once again, I'm not sure if this is called 'compiling from source' so if someone would correct my understanding it would be a great help) Is the idea to configure, make, install then delete that folder because the software is installed, or do I keep that decompressed folder for later use if I have to uninstall?
I recently installed Splunk on my Fedora 12 machine. It is not working properly and I also don't like where I installed it which was in my downloads folder some how. I cannot figure out how to uninstall this package and the Splunk Doc's are pretty weak.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI usually use portage(a type of package manager for Gentoo). It's easy to install and unistall programs.
However, I sometimes install programs from source for various reasons. The installation is fine but how do I remove them?
Do I just delete all the files or is there more to it?
I used the update tool on ubuntu and libmotif3 got installed, the thing is, a program i will have to use does not work with libmotif3 installed.So can anyone help me out by telling me how do i uninstall libmotif3??
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI installed Git on Ubuntu Lucid (latest) manually as following.
cd ~/tmp
wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.0.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf git-1.7.0.6.tar.gz
cd git-1.7.0.6.tar.gz
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Now, how can I completely uninstall it?
I have installed a package via command line via following command
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
How I can remove this package ? what is the command ?
add/remove option in the graphics mode is not working......its showing cant retrieve software information how can i remove a software from the terminal
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View 3 Replies View RelatedRecently I installed Ubuntu parallel to windows, since I still have some projects to finish using windows software. While exploring the world of Ubuntu I came across Kubuntu, which looked very nice. Now I made the mistake to download the installation disk and install Kubuntu parallel to Ubuntu and Windows. I played around with Kubuntu for a while, it looks really nice but I decided to stick to Ubuntu. So now I would like to remove Kubuntu, but I don't know how. The same goes for Windows, as soon as I have finished my projects with windows software. I would like to remove it as well, so that finally my computer runs only on Ubuntu.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm not sure of the exact sequence of events, but I install git-daemon on Ibex. I believe this installs runit (??). When I boot, I get the Ubuntu splash screen come up, but about half way through it drops to the console with the message:
Loading the saved-state of the serial devices...
-runit: leave stage: /etc/runit/1
-runit: enter stage: /etc/runit/2
The computer just sits there without starting gdm. Virtual consoles still work, and I am able to startx from a different console. However, I don't have networking (ping doesn't connect to anything, for example), and Gnome complains about failing to initialise HAL.
I have now uninstalled runit, and can now get back to a useable system. I have the same problem and for the same reason, but I can't uninstall runit because I can't log in with, for example, tty1 in tex-mode, because it says that my password is incorrect (and, believe me, I didn't forget my pass, and it hasn't non-ASCII characters, so I don't know what is the problem). The only thing I can do is boot a live CD and do something from it, but the only solution I know is reinstall...
I had install souce of "yum" but it dosent work properly now i dont want that prog. run for me. is their any method to uninstall it. how to use yum in steps. i had register for pbone.org for REPO bt i dont know hoe to deal with that. i am not register user of Redhat network.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any standard procedure to uninstall software packages which have the above extensions?
I know how to uninstall through yum or apt-get.. but how to tackle these files?
Like Nvidia drivers comes in .run adobeAIR comes in .bin netbeans in .sh
And what if i have installed from source i.e tar balls? are there some protocols to follow?
I think it may sound a lame question but i was wondering about this since days coz i want to remove some of the apps from my laptop..
A friend wants to sell her UMPC, witch has Windows Vista and Ubuntu. The system doesn't have a CD/DVD drive, so how do we remove Ubuntu and restore the mbr to a windows one?
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View 8 Replies View RelatedI installed poedit program from source folder then i delete this source folder , what if i want to uninstall it ? when locate poedit it give :
Code:
I cant command make uninstall coz i dont have source file ?
I want to remove fedora core 6 & that is all
View 14 Replies View RelatedI want to uninstall my openSuSE 11.2 from my desktop PC. I am currently running openSuSE on one of my other laptops, openSolaris on the other laptop, and I am going to run ubuntu on my desktop PC. I want to learn how to uninstall the openSuSE 11.2 without running a liveCD from another LINUX distro to do so. So my question is "How can someone uninstall openSuSE from within openSuSE itself ?"
The other reason is that my Windows XP on that HDD has had a massive failure and I want to wipe my hardrive completely clean and start anew!
I have a toshiba laptop which came with vista as default os..but 6 months back i started ecountering hell of problems that forced me 2 switch to ubuntu..though i liked it my dad cant run half of his business cd's...not even in vmware,wine...so now i need to help in getting windows xp installed..i have ubuntu live cd and the installation cd for xp..but i cant find the right technique..i read thru a few sites wer d wrote abut using gparted from the live cd n i tried it out but it was in vain..now i dont have any os on my harddrive..d message that i get when i insert the xp cd is that it cannot find any hard drives despite i having divided it into 4 parts: ntfs, fat32, unallocated.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm multi-booting with Windows 7 x64 and (at least) Linux Mint. Because I hadn't yet made a backup of my MBR, when I installed Linux Mint on a logical partition, I told the installer to put GRUB on the partition instead of in the MBR. This turned out to be useless, as I need to use GRUB from a boot disk to get into the GRUB I installed. Before installing it in the MBR, I'd like to get it out of the partition, preferably without wiping and reinstalling Linux. I don't relish the prospect of going through two layers of GRUB when I want to boot Linux. How do I get it out, or what other options are available to me?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm new to Linux so still learning it. I have installed Debian/GNU 5.0 on my VMware Server with Gnome 2.28 as desktop environment. So I'm wondering why so much variable stuff like CD recorders, image editors, games is installed with Gnome. But this is inly a half of the problem! Gnome depends on them! So when I want to uninstall them via Synaptic Package Manager it asks me to uninstall Gnome too!
View 6 Replies View RelatedHow do I temporarily but completely uninstall Ubuntu 10.4? I can't locate it in my registry, either using RegEdit or Revo Uninstaller. This is temporary. I will re-install on a different computer of mine that has much greater memory.
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