I'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 RepliesMy 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 trying to compile gettext 0.17 but it is dependent on glib2. the problem is that when i try to compile glib2 i get the error that says i must have gettext support in my c library or use the GNU gettext library. what should i do?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm running opensuse 11.2 with KDE. Today I got a software update notification saying that there was some gnome related packages that needed updating. I just pressed update without thinking about it too much. Then I realized that I'm not using any gnome programs so why do I need gnome-packages? Is there a way to tell if those packages are indeed unnecessary or not. And if so, how do I remove them all safely? I don't like having gnome stuff on my computer if I can avoid it.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm about to install Gnome on my ubuntu server box (that means, a headless server which I'm gonna access through vnc) I usually just run "apt-get install gnome" But it installs a bunch of stuff I'm not going to use (email, office, games, etc..). All I need is the most basic environment to allow me running programs and their GUIs (browsers, custom software etc), and access it with vnc How do I procced so I have the lightest gnome install possible? That's what I want to do, install gnome and access it through vnc. I'm aware of the number of other options I have.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen using apt-cache to find the reverse depends of a package, it would only show dependencies for packages in repositories that you have added wouldn't it? It wouldn't show that a package in a repository that your apt has never heard of depends on it?
I'm a slackware guy and don't use apt but am helping someone else and I almost told them that before I realized that I just made it up out of the blue.
How do I uninstall Gnome Games in F-14, when there isn't a little box beside "gnome games" in Add/Remove software..?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have FC 13 with both KDE and Gnome loaded. Over the last couple of years of using linux. I've found Gnome better suitable for my needs than KDE and now I'm stuck!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am running Open Suse 11.4 and I am wanting to uninstall GNOME 3.0, can it be done and have the system go back to the orginal GNOME? If so what do I need to do...
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been testing Mate since couple of weeks on my Jessie and now I'm convinced that is the perfect DE for me. So I would like to uninstall Gnome 3 without disturbing Mate and my system as well because both DE share many dependencies. If this is very risky I would like at least get rid of all gnome packages which are not shared with Mate.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi all, i used synaptic to uninstall epiphany and it also removed gnome-destop along with it, resulting in me having to reinstall(AGAIN!) Ofcourse my intention was to uninstall epiphany and _not_ gnome, so is there a way to take epiphany off of my system with out affecting gnome?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am using Ubuntu 9.04. After doing sudo apt-get update When I try to insatll pidgin via terminal it shows: XXX@XXX-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install pidgin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: pidgin: Depends: libpurple0 (>= 1:2.6.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-19ubuntu1.1) but 5.10.0-19ubuntu1 is to be installed E: Broken packages
I'm using Debian Wheezy i386.
I've tried to uninstall gnome as below :
Code: Select all# aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome | cut -f 1`
# aptitude -f install
# aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f 1`
# aptitude -f install
And gnome successfully removed.
After reboot, system started in tty and I plugged Wired Network cable to access Internet but I have no Internet!
Content of "/etc/apt/sources.list" :
Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian wheezy main
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian wheezy main
Output of `ifconfig` :
this is my sources.list :
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#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 kde-CD Binary-1 20110205-18:14]/ squeeze main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-7 20110205-18:15]/ squeeze contrib main
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Quote:
code-saturne:
Depends: ecs but it is not going to be installed
Depends: code-saturne-bin but it is not going to be installed
I'm trying to install a package the depends on libgfortran1. libgfortran2 and libgfortran3 are installed on the system, but that doesn't satisfy the dependency. Here's the error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: r-base-core: Depends: libgfortran1 (>= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installable Recommends: r-recommended but it is not going to be installed Recommends: r-base-dev but it is not going to be installed is there a way around this problem, (eg; editing a dependency list to libgfortran3)? Or is this version of r-base-core effectively broken?
View 5 Replies View RelatedTried to run sudo yum update and got this error on two different Fedora machines
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Error: Package: createrepo-0.9.9-4.fc15.noarch (updates)
Requires: yum >= 3.2.29-8
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Packages installed with synaptic are usually well installed on your system (i.e. bin in /usr/bin/, etc.). However, when a software is not in the repo, I always wonder where I should install it, when everything comes together (i.e. /bin, /var, /man are all subfolders of the main folder of the software). For now, I've opted for /var/opt/ or /usr/share, but I'm not really sure this is a best practice... is there any guidelines on that?
View 5 Replies View RelatedNoticed the statistic from the computer that it had taken 147MB from the internet today and put 8MB out. Why did it put out so much data, 8MB, why would it need to do that? It makes me paranoid.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI want to install some things on machine without internet connection. There is something like packages.ubuntu.com or debian.packages.org for Fedora? Well - as you can see on this site i can see packages with depends (ex. frozen-bubble): click to Debian packages site, click for packages.ubuntu.com. I can download packages with their depends easily from that sites. How i can get rpm with depends? I need to collect everything on usb flash drive and install on off-line machine without any problems. I can download single rpm with yumdownloader but i need depends too. Koji not satisfy me - no depends info. I need to download few apps from repo (on machine with internet connection), but with their depends - how? Or maybe there is something like Keryx for rpm-based distros?
View 10 Replies View Relatedprobably this is the most idiotic question and probably i know the answer. But I want to get confirmed. Is it anyway possible that my mobile broadband speed is slow because of my installation is wrong? actually, I formatted my machine and make it dual-boot. After that my mobile-broadband speed is horrible slow. I installed (a)kmod-wl and as dependency, broadcom-wl but my lspci only shows intel network manager.
Code:
$ lspci|grep Network
17:03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 008a (rev 34)
can this be related or just coincidence?
I have a centos 5.2 instance on Amazon thats been running without a restart for nearly 500 days.
Theres only one user - that's me - I'm root.
I put in the /tmp folder a couple of subfolders.
Didn't use the folders for about 6 months for anything and hardly touched the machine. When a webservice tried to generate a file in the subfolder under /tmp recently it failed. The folder was missing - so was another.
Nobody deleted the folders.
Is there something which cleans stuff up in /tmp automatically?
Trying to put some java stuff on my website, well intranet first to test them. What do I need got java 6 jdk and java 6 plugin. Java script is turned on. No joy on ubuntu jaunty.
View 6 Replies View Relatedcan this utility be configured to add more system-config stuff?is there a man page for it?
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen I update ubuntu with update manager ,an error occurred. the detail is:
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing empathy (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.bjtu.edu.cn_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
Here is a copy of what shows on by screen (I used sudo -s because I thought it might be an environment issue). Not sure what to do here Bash seems to be installed and if I run bash I get no errors. I did just upgrade to 11.04.
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root@jackie-Latitude-E6410:~/Downloads/SametimeStandardClient/sametimeclient.standalone/Linux# dpkg --force-architecture -i sametime-connect-8.5.1.i386.deb
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
dpkg: regarding sametime-connect-8.5.1.i386.deb containing sametime-connect:i386, pre-dependency problem:
sametime-connect:i386 pre-depends on bash
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I get the error when trying to mark tomahawk for installation using synaptics. I googled the error but couldn't find anything on it. could some one help me figure out what's going on?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have recently backed up all my documents photos etc to an external hard drive. What is the best way to check that everything has copied? I have tried diff but it was not very clear.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm sure I've done this before and never ran into trouble so it's not like I wasn't thinking, just something went wrong this time and I'm screwed. I'll post a fdisk -l to show ya what I mean.
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x624aa2e0
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Well I tried to install Pclinuxos 2010 to the same partitions as Mint 7 and basically just over write it (this I have done before) but this time Pclinuxos says there is a bad block and it can't copy files to / (sda7) I didn't think much of it at the time and thought I would try to install it (Pclinuxos) on a separate 100 gb usb drive and it was a sucessful install.
After booting Pclinuxos I try to access my 1TB sda hard drive and I can ony access sda1 .....when I look at /dev/sda in gparted is shows the whole disk as unallocated.I have done nothing at this point in time other than what I just said because I am very afraid of loosing all my pictures and everything else on that disk....and for those that will say always back up ....if ya think I'm not kicking myself right now your dead wrong......
I tried installing System-->Administration-->Synaptics Package Manager and I got following error
Code:
gnochm: Depends: python-gtkhtml2 but it is not installable I am using Lucid 64 bit and in my sources.list multiverse ,partner ,universe ,restricted and backports are enabled.
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?
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