OpenSUSE :: Why To Have Useless Gnome Stuff Installed?
Feb 3, 2010
I'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.
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Mar 3, 2010
I've been trying to purge my system from packages I don't normally use, like Epiphany and Evolution, and I think I have been somewhat successful but I'm still struggling with GNOME when trying to keep the gnome-applets package and the system forces the installation of the evolution-data-server-common and libedataserverui1.2-8 packages.What is the role of this packages? Are they hard-wired into GNOME and cannot be remove at all? Or is there a way to discard the packages and keep the one I want?
I'm not doing this for the sake disk space; I'm only trying to take control of my desktop to always have the most clean system possible.
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Jul 27, 2010
I tried gnash 0.8.7 in Google Chrome and it did not work on ..... and a couple of other sites with flash that i tried. Is there a way to get it to work or is it just useless? I'm running openesuse 11.3 kde with the latest version of chrome.
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Jun 23, 2011
I read somewhere that you cannot have Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 installed on the same system at the same time.
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Jun 24, 2011
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?
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Jan 2, 2011
so I've installed my two network drivers, Broadcom and Realtek. So now I'm trying to connect to the internet (wlan/wireless) but I am now stumped. What do I do now? How do I get to see available networks and stuff?
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Jul 2, 2011
I'm getting ready to back up all my data and reinstall Ubuntu from scratch, to clear up some various issues. It sure would be helpful if I could see a quick list in Synaptic or the Ubuntu Software Center of all the things I've installed myself.That would help with this whole process.
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Mar 4, 2010
Things were running fine until GNOME misbehaved;
GNOME failed to load telling me:
Install error, Configuration defaults for GNOME power manager have not been installed correctly.
So I
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To the shell and check the logs in gdm and find this:
Could not ask power manager if user can suspend, launch helper exited with unknown return code 0.
So I try
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To see if another user will get the desktop; I get the error
Cant create etc/passwd no space left on device.
So I
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And get the following
I insert a usb drive to prepare for back up; Run
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On the shell to get the usb device name; Then run
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To mount the device.
I end up with:
Cant create lock file /etc/mtab~ 4610 No space left on device(use -n flag to override)
So, I
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And see 9 partitionitions
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Again to check which ones are loaded at boot up time and get
plus some other file systems mounted at boot up, but not mapping to any physical partitionition.
I try
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On partition9 and get warnings because its mounted, so I chicken out and try
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And run into the error:
cant create lock file /etc/mtab~4832 no space left on device (use -n flag to override)
Good thing is there is a
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Since space is a problem, I
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On partition6 which is not mounted at boot up time and try to
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I still get the error
cant create lock file /etc/mtab~4735 no space left on device (use -n flag to override
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For package update tells me
cant open /var/run/zypp.pid in mode w
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For power management tells me its not even recognised as a command.
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Jan 24, 2010
I was trying to install a new hard drive and in the process have managed to not only format my old hard drive but lost all my stuff as well. I am running a live CD but unable to mount the said hard drive. I Know its there.
fdisk tells me:
As you can see its still registering as /dev/sda, I am unable to mount this to run a undelete program on it.
a e2fsck tells me
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
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Apr 11, 2010
Well I have installed Wine for the propose of running easyphp program which can be found at [URL]... I installed it on my windows machine and like it. I want to run it on this machine because I have it hooked up to my tv and I have a wireless mouse and keyboard so I can program or whatever from the bed. Anyways, I need to remove the stuff I installed though this tread. [URL]... The reason for removing the installed stuff is because I believe it is occupying port 80 which I need open for easyphp. How do I uninstall this stuff I installed?
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Dec 26, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu 10.10, and I really have no idea how to login. When I first start it up, it is a black screen and a lot of codes and stuff pop up. It says to login, so I do, but I don't know how to get past that. How do I get to the desktop? I have no one else to turn to...
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Jan 13, 2010
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!
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May 19, 2010
Deleted my ati drivers accidently during a botched upgrade. Have been trying to fix the problem from things I read on here, made a thread but can't get online to execute it.Found my install dvd tried running repair and in the process deleted my windows partition(anyway to get that back?) and still no previous ati drivers or gnome installed.
When I boot up i see SUSE LINUX not opensuse... no grub So my question is how do I install ati drivers from the dvd and how do I install gnome or kde from install dvd? did i royally mess up and basically now just completely reinstall opensuse 11.2 completely? and if so can I recover files from my deleted windows partition and previous opensuse partition?
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Sep 16, 2010
I have the Suse DVD with me. I need to know if I will get the KDE or the Gnome Desktop features installed as Default.
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Nov 1, 2010
I'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.
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May 6, 2010
I'm sure there is something I have done wrong. I have installed GNOME, but on start up it doesnt give me the option to select it. How can I use GNOME?
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Jul 19, 2010
I installed Gnome on my server using the gnome-core and xinit packages so I could use MySQL Workbench.I start up Gnome when I need it via startx./etc/init.d/gdm doesn't exist so I can't use gdm start or gdm stopHow can I stop Gnome and the X server in this situation?
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Mar 29, 2011
I've been playing around with the cairo dock, and after moving the original dock around, when I minimize a window, it simply disappears. I've since gotten rid of cairo but the minimizing behavior hasn't returned.
How do I restore the original minimizing behavior, where you could see the programs in the panel?
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Aug 13, 2010
I would like to know exactly how to download files and applications from Firefox.
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Oct 21, 2010
I have these supposed missing 64 bit libs for everything on my main computer. I keep getting the following type messages whilst trying to get things working on a fresh 11.3 install on my test box. All these 64 bit things were installed on it before I wiped it and did a fresh install. I got it when I installed the codecs for gstreamer/kaffeine as well but went ahead and installed. Where did the 64 bit stuff go? I even changed packman mirrors.
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May 19, 2010
I would like to allow normal users to run some root scripts (e.g the sound subsytem [alsa]) in cases sound is stuck. What is the best way to allow this to happen in opensuse? There are many ways to do that (and I do not know how to use any of them ) and I am not sure which one is more suse all right.
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Feb 1, 2011
I tried to add a stanza to /etc/rc.d/boot.local but it did not get executed following the next reboot. I then tried to find documentation on the structure of opensuse boot scripts, but failed.
the boot scripts in opensuse are sufficiently different from: fedora, ubuntu, redhat, debian, (pretty much all other linuces) that one needs a tutorial or documentation to learn howto add scripting to local like one adds stuff to rc.local elsewhere.
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Dec 8, 2010
Chromium was running fine , till i enabled GPU Acceleration , Click2Play and tabbed preferences from "about:flags" ... Now every time i start chromium it instantly crashes..
This is the crash report :
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[5095:5095:2310863628:ERROR:base/native_library_linux.cc(32)] dlopen failed when trying to open /usr/lib/chromium/libffmpegsumo.so: /usr/lib/chromium/libffmpegsumo.so: cannot open shared object file:
[5097:5097:2310891375:ERROR:base/native_library_linux.cc(32)] dlopen failed when trying to open /usr/lib/chromium/libffmpegsumo.so: /usr/lib/chromium
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I think i need to disable GPU acceleration to get it running... so i need to disable it from a config file in /home/.config/chromium .
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Sep 9, 2011
I just performed a KDE update from 4.7.0 to 4.7.1 on my OpenSUSE 11.3 64-bit machine and my desktop is in bad shape: the plasma stuff doesn't seem to work at all...and I don't have any panels...the default one on the bottom of the screen is gone also. I tried creating a new user in Yast, but when I log in I get a blank black screen. KDE seems to be pooched!
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Sep 3, 2010
I've installed open suse with no problems however I accidentally put my root folder on an external HD. I want to have my root on a partition of my main drive so I can continue to dual boot windows. Is there a way to move root so I don't have to completely reinstall and set up all my packages and stuff again.I assume to do this I need to use the installation disk again and fix it before boot up but should I partition my main drive first. I'm being intentionally cautious as there is data I'd rather not lose on there.
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Sep 27, 2009
I thought java was opensourced, yet the Cisco ASDM (which is java based) is completely unuseable when using openjava. When I use the version from java.com, everything works as expected, including the browser plugin.
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Aug 3, 2010
I want to get rid of all my useless files. It seems like my hard drive space keeps on shrinking also..& sometimes my PC freezes also..it hard to work on it.. so need a tool that can delete junks out ..
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May 24, 2010
recently I installed CouchDB 0.11 from source. Everything seemed to be fine, but yesterday I found out, that I can not use CouhDB Views. There are two reasons:
1 - I get no response from CouchDB if I created a Views and tried to execute it. There's no response neither in futon non in terminal. Everything I get is an endless loading-circle (if I use futon)
2 - CouchDB immediately "eats" all free resource. CPU usage jumps to 99% right after I executed a (temp)view. Only restarting of the couchdb stops this useless CPU crap
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Apr 8, 2010
I was recently surprised by this SCIM stuff that seems to screw around with my normal text input. I try to be curious and approach my issues with an open mind, so before I try to remove SCIM, I want to know what the hell it's supposed to do.but it's not obvious to me
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Aug 18, 2011
I'm having trouble understanding the principles behind OpenSuse package and repository management. Here is a concrete example: I want to install the 32bit version of glibc. (using zypper) Naturally I write 'wp glibc' to see what's available. Output:
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I'm looking for the (32bit) tokyocabinet library. I go through all the hoops like I did in the first example. Nothing shows up! How is that possible? Does opensuse really not have this library in any repository? Does that mean I have to install from source? How can I be sure that zypper searches through all repositories?
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