I just upgraded to 10.04, and it seems to be working well. At the very end of the process, it asked me if I wanted to delete my obsolete packages, and I chickened out and said "no". Now I have a truckload of taken space on the root drive, and am wondering if there is an easy way to complete this last step of clearing out obsolete packages now that 10.04 has been fully installed?
View 2 Repliesafter aptitude udpate i got:
Current status: 542 updates [+470], 28356 new [+1469].
There are 18 newly obsolete packages: devicekit-disks, gcj-4.3-base, libcelt0, libdirectfb-1.2-0, libgcj9-0, libgcj9-jar,
libgraphviz4, liblzma1, libmagickcore2, libmagickcore2-extra, libmagickwand2,
libmenu-cache0, libntfs-3g54, libx264-79, libxmmsclient5, libxxf86misc1, w32codecs,
xserver-xorg-video-v4l
How would i delete/remove obsolete packages? And why are they obsolete?
I made a network install of a new 11.4 system yesterday. It went all fine, but I was suprised that at the end of the installation some 80 packages required updating.
So what's the point in installing obsolete versions first? A significant amount of time is wasted downloading and installing packages, which will be replaced shortly thereafter. Of course that's the way it works for a media-based installation, because one does not want to create, test and release new installation media everytime a package is updated. But in network installation all it would take is to use the repository with the updated version.
The only argument I could imagine is that an updated package could make the installation fail. Installation with original packages has gonew through some QA. Well yes, of course it's all software, so everything can fail. But when you install updates into your production system there is always the theoretical risk that they contain a fatal bug causing damage. For a new installation the damage would be much smaller, should the installation fail because an untested combination of package version happens not to install cleanly.
I have enabled the option to keep the yum cache when updating Fedora 12 and I was wondering if there was a way in which I could remove old versions of the same package from the cache?
I have Fedora installed on more than one machine and I make them share a common update location for their updates to avoid downloading the same packages twice (bandwidth quota expensive in Australia).
how I could accomplish that? yum clean doesn't seem to have any options to only remove old packages!!!
Example: The yum update cache has:
wireshark-gnome-1.2.5-3.fc12.x86_64.rpm
wireshark-gnome-1.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm
I wish to only keep the most recent version that is wireshark-gnome-1.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm, but for all the packages.
I tried to update fedora 15 and it took too long , even the cleaing of packages took too long At the end of the update got the status cleaning up packages that took even longer than the whole update.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI had been doing some removal of packages, and things went well, or so I thought. Now whenever I try and install any package using aptitude, some old state is lingering around and wants me to install packages that I do not want, and remove some packages that I am not sure about removing (did I actually select those to be removed??) I removed libvirt etc, and now it wants to come back? Also, like I mentioned, why remove those other four packages?
The following NEW packages will be installed:
aqemu gtkrsync libvirt-doc libvirt0 python-libvirt qemu qemu-kvm qemu-system qemu-user qemu-utils virt-top virt-viewer virtinst
The following packages will be removed:
dnsmasq-base{u} netcat-openbsd{u} python-gtk-vnc{u} python-vte{u}
0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 4 to remove and 176 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,210kB/24.3MB of archives. After unpacking 72.7MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ^C
Running squeeze, and enjoying it so far, apart from a broken out of the box synergy (compiled my own synergy-plus to fix that issue) and a buggy samba client.
I have ubuntu jaunty 9.04 installed in my system(thats my only OS.. no dual boot). When I tried to install hplip to enable hp printer driver, I understood that 9.04 is obsolete and no more support for it. I want to upgrade now. Update manager shows '10.04' for uogradation but it seems I cannot jump from 9.04 to 10.04 without getting into 9.10.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a long list of files like the following examples mentioned in the Synaptic Package Manager's 'Installed (local or obsolete)':
linux-headers-2.6.24-18
linux-headers-2.6.24-18-generic
linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic
with the last two digits ranging from 14 to 23.
I currently have Kernel Linux 2.6.24-26-generic loaded (according to System->Administration->System Monitor->'System' tab) [I'm using 8.04 LTS].
I'm hesitating in removing them because I assume that the Synaptic Package Manager would remove these when doing the upgrades. My suspicion is that these are still needed for later versions and removing them would cause a few problems to say the least.
Am I safe to either 'Remove' or 'Completely Remove'?
It would be great to save all that space if these can be removed.
I use Markdown to store all of my source documents. Unfortunately, the .md extension maps to application/x-genesis-rom under Ubuntu. I'm not sure why that would be a system default MIME type, but I'd like to change it.
I've tried using:
Code:
gksu assogiate
to modify my file type cache. Unfortunately, even as the SU, I can't modify the entry for this file type. The "Remove" button is inactivated for the entry. (See attachment.)
How can I get rid of this (obsolete?) file association? Alternatively, how can I make my new one (text/x-markdown) take precedence?
I have a Toshiba TC1000 which is about 8 years old. 256 ram, 1.66 ghz processor, 30 gb hdd, running Win XP sp3. I bought this as an emergency purchase and have had nothing but problems with it and other than throwing it at the wall I thought I might try one last solution - to install Linux. This device has no optical drive but it does have power ISO installed but I don't know where to start with all the choice of Linux, Ubuntu etc. Plus other than the OS will I need any other software? I am a newbie and don't know much about computers so I won't be insulted if you think this is idiotic.
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View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm doing a bit of housekeeping and tidying up of programs I no longer need/use, and as some of these were installed using sbopkg I thought I would also tidy those. However when attempting to view obsolete sources via the utilities sub-menu, sbopkg seems to crash to a cli interface from the ncurses one and spews continuously the error below. This thern continues until I CTRL+C the process which of course then leaves the sbopkg pid file still showing active in /var/run. Anyone else come across this, and a possible way to prevent it.
/usr/sbin/sbopkg: cannot make pipe for command substitution: Too many open files
stty: standard input: Bad file descriptor
/usr/sbin/sbopkg: line 569: read: read error: 0: Bad file descriptor
stty: standard input: Bad file descriptor
/usr/sbin/sbopkg: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: Too many open files
I recently upgraded from F13 to F14 using "preupgrade". This is the first time I've used preupgrade. So far, F14 is running OK. There are some leftovers from F13 and I'm wondering if this is correct.
Q1: There are 176 F13 packages remaining. [alfrugal@localhost Documents]$ rpm -qa | grep fc13 | wc -l 176 Is this OK? FWIW, after the upgrade, I ran "package-cleanup --orphans" as recommended by the "preupgrade" page on the Fedora Project wiki.
Q2: Also, my GRUB menu was correctly updated for F14, but it still contains the three entries it had for F13. Is it normal for the preupgrade process to require the user to clean up the obsolete entries from the GRUB menu?
How to add packages using X-Window's add/remove packages option in RHEL-5.3 as it shows only the currently installed package and and does not show any thing when we click the button "available packages" ?
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Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.I've tried changing the servers to MAIN and others, and still no way to solve it. I've also checked for other posts, but haven't found a solution yet. Here's my SOURCES LIST (gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list)# See http:[url].... for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution.
Can anyone clean up, and thus free up space on, my hard drive. i've tried -computer janitor, constantly empty the trash, and delete stuff from the download folder. where is the stuff i've installed going, not in synaptic- i've searched for programs i want to delete there and cannot find them. meanwhile i've got like 400mb left on a 13 GB HD and cant do a thing about it.
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I'm finding out on the internet that /tmp in Ubuntu is typically a Ramdisk, thus cleared automatically on reboot - but that's not how I was ever taught to setup a linux box; I *always* create /home var et al and mount them separately, including /tmp.
So on my new 10.04 install I am informed my tmp partition is down to 12 Meg, and find K9Copy crashed last night (I initially thought this was due to a crash, but testing shows it just - leaves them there. K9Copy!) leaving a 4.5 Gig file sitting in tmp. I add a couple Gig to the tmp partition (LVM rocks btw.) and reboot. Files are still there.
I finally went in via gksu nautilus and manually deleted the data.
More research find this results in exactly the kind of issues I was having previously in my 9.10 install (albeit without the helpful warning that helped me figure it out) of Firefox and various other programs acting glitchy because they right to tmp and it's full.
I'm a n00b, and really don't know how to fix this - the 'proper' way to clean tmp seems to involve dropping entirely out of X to userlevel 0 and running from the commandline?!?! . . /tmp is supposed to be for temporary files; ideally a program should clean up after itself, but it's actually Ubuntu's job to clean this.
My going in and manually cleaning out files is insane if gksu nautilus is involved, nevermind if that's the *wrong* way. I'm certainly not the guy to write a cronjob to clean this. On the other hand - this only started in the last week or so (on 9.10) so it has to be a recent change.
I've been trying to fix this problem for quite a few days now and have done a lot of searching on these forums, Linux Mint Forums and some others Google lead me to and have has some success, but am now stuck.I have posted a thread on this same topic on the Linux Mint Forums, but have had no success (if you want check it out at:URL...Originally I received error messages when trying to update involving certain repositories which couldn't be accessed (because they either didn't exist or had been moved) and I hunted these down and changed or removed them.
I have done much searching, etc. and cannot find any broken packages. I have tried many many different commands which have mostly done nothing.I seem to be in a similar boat to this person: URL...
How do I get rid of the information that Ubuntu stores for connecting to wireless networks?
I'm asking because I have two wireless networks nearby: my personal network and my school's network. I tried one time to connect to the school's network using the standard prompts but none of them worked - however I could connect to my personal network just fine. The problem is that Ubuntu remembered the incorrect information I entered for my school's network and keeps trying to connect to it.
It's annoying because whenever I'm in range of both networks I keep having to manually tell it to stop connecting to my school's network and to connect to my personal one instead.
Is there any way to clear the list of recent folders when you click Move or Copy on an image in gThumb? It's gotten way too big, so now it's not really helpful at all, with folders I don't even use.
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recent
downloads
favorites
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If I add a rule to iptables:
Code:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth4 -j MASQUERADE
it does not get removed when I try to clear all the rules:
[code]...
a few days ago i set my FoxyProxy settings to tor. I needed it to make a few raid boards on 4chan and those can get you banned if you post.
So anyways, i go on this forum about a phone and i accidentally refreshed the page, but i haven't switched from proxy to my default settings and so all of a sudden a message appeared "Sorry, ###### you are banned from this forum."
I tried clearing cache, cookies and whatnot through firefox' options but still i get that message, i installed Midori for a quick test and it seems to work there (I'm not banned) but never on firefox, even rebooted and still nothing.
I really hate the ads with Midori as i use Adblock for firefox.
I'm writing a script to clean my computer.
Everything is good to go except i have no clue how to clear firefox's history and whatnot from the command line.
This is one of the commands i found...: rm .mozilla/firefox/linux-blog.default/cookies.txt
It tells me no such file or directory.
Would like to ask for some advise regarding GRUB. I have been using Windows for a long time and recently have finally decided to switch to Linux. A good friend recommended Ubuntu and I have installed it on an 8GB USB thumbdrive for test drive. Nowadays, I mainly boot from this thumbdrive for my personal computing use. [I am a supporter of the "Immersion Learning" school. The only way for me to really learn is to force myself to use the system ] as I frequently updates my Ubuntu 9.10 via the Update Manager, I found my GRUB screen now have multiple entries like below:
[Code]....
I would like to remove the last 4 lines but:
1. I'm not sure how to do it?
2. And do i just delete the entries or do i also have to delete some system files? {this is important as i am running this on a USB thumbdrive and would like to remove any files that are no longer necessarily and keep the installation as lean as possible}.
I see too many entries upon turning on my laptop: [URL]..There should only be 3 entries: Windows partition, Ubuntu partition, and the memtest thing, I believe. The *doubling* up of Windows and Ubuntu is due to me wiping Ubuntu, then reinstalling Ubuntu. The third entry for Ubuntu is due to re apt-get install'ing gnome-desktop. How can simplify the menu?
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