I compiled and install a binary source using "make" and "make install", but after I done that I think it's kind a messy not to build it in package. Therefore I tried to uninstall it and make a package out of it.
Questions:
1. How do I uninstall a compiled binary from "make install"? Some suggested to do it manually. How do I do it cleanly so that I won't miss any spot?
2. I understand that makepkg is used to build a package. I have the binary compressed in tar.gz format and have some difficulties to understand the man page for makepkg since I'm not familiar with "make". How do I build it using makepkg, what is the proper step?
Having just executed a 11.2 to 11.3 upgrade (KDE), in which I preserved /home from 11.2 to preserve my data and settings, I now wonder if there is a "Best Practice" on how to setup the environment, anticipating future upgrades.Currently, for applications I frequently use and wish to launch from the desktop, I open /usr/share/applications (using Dolphin) and drag the application to my Desktop Folder, choosing the "Copy To:" option.After the recent update, my Desktop Folder files remain those from 11.2 or earlier.It seems now a better practice would be to populate the Desktop Folder with links back to /usr/share/ applications, so that changes would be implemented the the link to a newer file. That would be easily implemented by choosing the "Link To:" option when dragging.
lets start with mentioning that I am a very satisfied user of a fileserver with a OpenSuSe 11.1 environment, implemented in october-november 2009. The server has the following charateristics: Hardware Core AMD Semprom LE-1250 on Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2H Mobo
1 GB memory 2,5 inch 360 GB systemdisk 3x 1TB data disks in RAID 5 configuration Functionality used Software raid (RAID 5)
I am running Slackware 12.2 on my webserver and I've configured and compiled PHP from source. I'd like to uninstall it, but there is no package. I've never tried to remove software without a package before. Do I just delete all the directories PHP is in?
I installed slackware linux 11, now how to uninstall it? I want to install windows xp, I tried to remove all partations, but it showing still linux slackware only
Warning ! wine binary (still) found, which may indicate a (conflicting) previous installation. You might want to abort and uninstall Wine first. (If you previously tried to install from source manually, run 'make uninstall' from the wine root directory)
We need to install Wine as the root user. Do you want us to build Wine, 'su root' and install Wine?
Enter 'no' to build Wine without installing:
Why it say conflicting previous installation? "make uninstall" not work?
My laptop has Slackware 12.2 and I installed gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 5. But in this moment I need to install gnuplot 4.4. First I like to uninstall gnuplot 4.2, but I can't uninstall this programm.
I do slackpkg remove gnuplot and obtaining Looking for gnuplot in package list. Please wait... DONE
The file remove can't be removed - package not installed.
But Gnuplot 4.2 was installed at my laptop. I can do graphics and its version is @science:~$ gnuplot --version gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 5
How to uninstall this version and to install gnuplot 4.4.
I'm on Slackware 13 and use XFCE (no KDE or QT) as my DE and Exaile as my music player. I try and install all my software using slackbuilds. Recently I came to know that Exaile 0.3.1.0 was out and so decided to upgrade from my current 0.3.0.1 . So I downloaded the source package and the slackbuild, and after changing the version number in the Slackbuild script, went ahead with the installation. The install went fine but exaile wont start up as the new version required a newer version of gtk+.
Since, I was not ready to invest my time in that, I uninstalled the newer version through pkgtool. I had the precompiled library left from my previous 0.3.0.1 install so, I installed it using installpkg. Now the problem is that when try to launch exaile, the splash screen shows up, but quickly disappears (this was also happening with the newer version, when it required newer gtk+). The error I am getting is:
Code: bash-3.1$ exaile INFO : Loading Exaile 0.3.0.1... INFO : Loading settings... INFO : Setting up deferred idle manager function... INFO : Loading plugins... INFO : Loading collection... /usr/lib/exaile/xl/common.py:342: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6 self.message = message /usr/lib/exaile/xl/common.py:345: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6 return repr(self.message)
Also, when I logged in as the root, exaile would launch without any problems or glitches.
I use slackware 13.1-current on desktop with 4gb ram, nvidia geforce 210, and AMD cpu. I have problem with my X starting using 40-50 MB of RAM and after some hours suddenly rises up to 400-500 MB. I have tried KDE ( with and without desktop effects ), LXDE, 3 different nvidia drivers ( the one made from the slackbuilds ) but no luck. I decided at last to use the default slackware's driver. I uninstalled the nvidia driver and do startx, but it says code...
I have no idea about GPU and drivers, it was a mistake to install a driver for my nvidia just to have desktop effects. I just want to bring the things back as at the beginning of the systems installation and the default drivers. Do you have any idea how to do it?
I'm setting up a Fedora 11 server for the company of one of my friends. So far so good. But now he has asked me to setup access restrictions to folders through samba. Now I'm quite familiar with user access policies, even though I'm quite new to the GNU/Linux world. What I want to know is : what is the best way to give and remove, on the go, rwx access for a specific user to a certain folder in a linux system? Can I create groups for each folders, whose members will have the given permissions? Or do I have to create users for each folder and add to their group the user witch i want to give privilege to?
I just did my first rsnapshot backup of my /home/ to an external harddisk. When I am not at my computer for a couple of hours, I always shut it down. Therefore, there are no predictable hours of the day where I know that my computer is running. So, how should I schedule/crontab my rotating rsnapshot backups?
Is anyone using rsnapshot in combination with a schedule which is not based on exact times but rather on the time the computer is running?
I'm planning to partition a new hard drive to dual-boot Mint+Mepis. I've read partitioning tutorials and posts, and want to check my understanding--I'd appreciate input from an experienced person.For 500GB hard drive, dual-boot Mint+Mepis:
--Mint: / root partition for OS; /home partition for ease of upgrading --Mepis: same as Mint = four partitions
And: /swap partition to be shared between Mint+Mepis /shared partition for shared data = two partitions
Total = six partitions
Since four primary partitions are allowed, I should use three primary partitions and one extended partition containing three logical partitions.Is that correct?If so, what should go where? I assume there's an optimal strategy--Should each /root of Mint+Mepis go in a primary? What should go in the other primary, and in the three logicals? Or maybe I don't need three primaries?--use two primaries and four logicals?
I have a rock solid server running CentOS 5.3 (probably 5.4 soon enough). Basic LAMP box with a few tweaks thrown in. Everything is running perfectly, with one problem - the drive is too small (I project it filling up to dangerous levels in 6-8 months). So, what I'm looking to do is basically clone the drive, store the image, pull the current drive and replace with a bigger drive (same number of heads and cylinders though), and install the image.
What I did do once, a million years ago, is put the new drive as a slave on the same IDE cable, and use dd (working from a live CD of the distro) to copy from the master (smaller) to slave (larger). Then, yank the smaller, change jumper on bigger drive from slave to master, and away I go. Next step as I recall was using gparted to get access to all the space on the new, bigger drive.
Is this more less still a reasonable way to go? I recall the issue was making sure the old smaller and new larger drive had the same number of heads/cylinders (although I don't remember exactly why).
Was running 10.10 64-bit on Thinkpad X201. I mistakenly clicked on upgrade this morning (really meant to just do a plain old update)... I tried to stop the process, but nothing that I did could get me out of the upgrade loop... so I eventually was forced to go ahead. Machine boots into 11.04; however, keyboard and mouse doesn't work. I have an external keyboard/mouse combo and that will intermittently work, but questionable. I was able to turnoff Unity; however, Classic doesn't seem to work with either external keyboard or laptop builtin.
My root and home are on separate partitions. I have a very fresh copy of home backed up on a separate drive. I don't have a recent backup of root. If I could get Natty working with Classic (including minimize/maximize) I'd be OK...I'd be also OK with going back to 10.10 if I could do it without too much pain. Meanwhile, I'm using another machine with Windows 7 so that I can at least do some work and come back to resurrecting my machine after I've had a bit of a timeout..
[URL]. I am installing the above later this week with the intent of it being my OS drive.
Potential Partition Scheme -> Boot 100 M Swap 8 Gig / -> Balance /home --> Separate Drive
Does this make sense for a SSD drive. Not sure if I should place the swap on the SSD drive or if there are any issues around any paticular partition set up. I am looking at installing either -> LM 9 / Ultimate Edition 2.8 / Debian / Ubuntu 10.1.
I want to get Ubuntu blazing fast and I started out by changing the swappiness to just 10 and got a huge performance spike. I was very happy with that. Then I used rcconf and GNOME's startup applications GUI and edited out quite a bit but still have a somewhat slow boot. Well, the next thing I thought I should do is edit the inittab and rid my self of some surely unneeded services. Well, according to this website, Ubuntu doesn't use this inittab, but etc/event.d doesn't exist either! Well I looked in /etc for something related to init, and I believe I have found where these services are called upon. /etc/init.d and /etc/init.
Now the files contain many scripts for different services so I was wondering how to edit these to turn them off to optimize my boot! Do I comment out the unneeded ones? My next question is what strategy should I use as I edit these? I think I can get rid of "ssh" and "cups" and "samba" since I don't use these. Can someone point me to a nice list of services and their functions? I just want to optimize Ubuntu as much as possible to not only have a fast computer for my self and family to use, but to impress Windows users with the speed that can be obtained from Linux!
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?
Ok, so I tried to run the .deb package to install the Facebook chat plugin for Pidgin, and something got all messed up with that, and now nothing will install or uninstall. Synaptics won't run, Update Manager tells me to try a termianl command that doesn't work, and the Software center doesn't work either. I've attached screenshots of the problems. I've tried to download and reinstall the .deb file, and it still doesn't work.
I wanted to upload one more picture, but it only allows five. The last picture was of the terminal window. Here's what it said.
"Sudo apt-get install f reading package lists... done building dependency tree reading state information... done E: The package pidgin-facebookchat needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it"
Im new to ubuntu so i may not understand some answers so please bare with me. For a university thing i needed to run java so i installed sun java 6.0. I got an error half way though so i thought nothing of it and went off to do other things. Now when i try and install or uninstall anything i get this message
The package system is broken If you are using third party repositories then disable them, since they are a common source of problems. Now run the following command in a terminal: apt-get install -f
I 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...
My problem started with DVDrip and I mad an apt-on-cd DVD and installed from there rather than download the packages for my twop systems running karmic. I don't know what has happened but now if I try to install/upgrade/remove anything i get the following.
Code: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libevent-execflow-perl: Depends: libanyevent-perl but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I was trying out things, many different scenarios, many uninstalls, and yestarday just ran janitor ? now I don't have panels, some buttons missing, but many are still here (but unistalled earlier). I would like to make a cleanup in applications/ the button graphics are "blanks" but their name is still there, and who know what else might be conflicting in the background. any useful commands for check-and-clean-and-or-restore?
I have ubuntu 10.10 and i have an linux mint iso ready to put on my usb. i need help on getting the iso to work on the usb and then installing linux mint and delete ubuntu. I dont care if i delete everything as i have backed up stuff.
I currently have Ubuntu running on my dads computer, but came to the conclusion, not to mention his complaining, that Ubuntu isn't for him. Instead, I read up on Kubuntu and thought it was perfect!
I already know that I can download Kubuntu through the Ubuntu software center, but I want to do a complete clean install with Kubuntu. So far, I have made a cd for Kubuntu, but can't get the cd to pick up when I boot my pc, so that I may install it.
How can I install Kubuntu for his computer and remove Ubuntu?
I am fairly new to Linux. I have OpenSuse Desktop 11.3. For a software package I need to install, I have to have Python 2.4 or 2.5 - it will not run with Python 2.6. I cannot find any way in Yast to install the older version of Python. So my question is this: How do I first uninstall Python 2.6 so I don't screw anything up, and then install Python 2.5? Is it as simple as using Yast for the uninstall, then finding the tarball for 2.5, unpacking it, ./configure, sudo make, sudo make install?
I installed Linux since I really enjoy the OS, alot more fun than Windows, but the problem is that I cant play any game when I'm bored. So I'm going to install Windows and then install Linux alongside again,
But to do that I need to uninstall Ubuntu, so my question is, how do I do that? I tried to just boot from the Windows CD, but after a while it says that it cant proceed caused by an error that says that my CD/DVD-Rom or my USB is failing or that is isin't connected, cant really remember. But my DVD-rom works perfectly when not running the Windows-CD.
Is this problem caused by that my HDD got EXT4 instead of NTFS?
