Ubuntu Installation :: How To Safely Uninstall Peppermint OS
May 13, 2010
In my case, getting fed up with Lucid's flaky behaviour with my particular display, having tried various solutions that were really only half-baked workarounds (the best being to install a mainline kernel) - I decided to install Peppermint Linux next to Ubuntu, thus creating a dual boot system. But I've decided I don't really like Peppermint Linux. Further, in the meantime, I've found a workaround for Lucid which (so far) seems like a longer term solution (I installed Kernel xxxx?-22, while increasing my display's refresh rate - and now all is hunky-dory - it starts perfectly, with a 'normal' visual effects desktop, and even Cheese no longer crashes the system with my old webcam).
Now here's the rub....
How to (a) uninstall Peppermint Linux (with its Grub - which was obviously set over Lucid's) (b) reclaiming the whole hard drive (it's only 40gb total - as it's an oldish machine) for Lucid - without having to reinstall Lucid, which I now have very nicely set up indeed, albeit currently squeezed for space? Is there some nice patient geek out there who can put me out of my misery with a step by step guide? I've tried Google - but everyone with a similar problem seems to want to reclaim the space for Windows!
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Jan 26, 2010
For testing posposes I installed another mythbuntu (9.10) in dual boot next to my older (9.04) one.
I now want to uninstall it but ofcourse the grub is now loaded from there, so I can't just delete the partition.
How can I safely remove it and come back to my old grub?
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May 13, 2010
Can I safely remove 1 distro without screwing up the other? I have Linuxmint as secondary and ubuntu as the last.I want to replace ubuntu.If I just delete the partitions/format and install my other os which is OpenSuse 10.03 will this work.will opensuse see linuxmint and make grub understand?
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Apr 23, 2011
RAM of the machine is 4M. I never see the swap partition has been used via system monitor. So can I safely delete the swap partition?
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Jun 15, 2011
I've been using Gnome for several years and haven't had any real problems with it. Now, however, I find the descriptions of what Gnome 3 and the Gnome Shell quite unsettling. That is, the Gnome devs have added a number of things I don't want, removed things I do want and made it impossible to configure Gnome 3 to work anywhere near what I want without adding unsupported third-party extensions. (Note: this is neither a complaint nor a flame; it's just a statement of my personal taste and any attempts to argue about it will be ignored.)
Currently, I have installed XFCE and am very happy with it on my two F14 boxes. I know that if and when I move to F15 (or F16 if 15 continues to be as problematic as it is so far) the upgrade will include Gnome 3, even though I don't use it. I'd like, therefore, to remove it but without removing any bits and pieces of it that are needed by whatever programs I'm using. What's the safest way to do this?
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Jun 2, 2010
I managed to successfully upgrade FC11 to FC13. While doing the post upgrade steps, I made a HUGE mistake. After identifying the unsupported packages, I used "yum remove package1 package2" command to remove the obsoleted ones without realizing the yum was also removing many FC13 packages! Here are the cmd sequence used:
# package-cleanup --orphans
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# yum remove compat-db45-4.5.20-5.fc10.i386 flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386 gnome-spell-1.0.8-5.fc9.i386 ifd-egate-0.05-21.i586
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I simply typed Yes and left unattended for a few minutes after yum prompted there were # of packages to be removed as I blindly believed it would do the job. After returning to the computer, I found many installed icons were disappearing, the wireless suddenly turned off etc. I killed the yum process right away but it was too late.
-Is there anything I could do to undo the yum remove process?
-How to safely remove supported packages?
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Jun 19, 2011
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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Jul 4, 2011
I am trying to uninstall my LAMP server and my Drupal 7 installation. Unfortunately I cannot find any instructions on uninstalling Druapl from my system. The ones that exist are far too old( < 2008 ) to be relevant. Could someone please direct me how to go about this? Note: I did not use Synaptic for installation. I downloaded the file from the drupal.org site.
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Apr 2, 2011
I just take back my Netbook from warranty claim. The hard disk and motherboard has been replaced.My netbook is using internal Ralink RT3090 Wireless Adapter. The module(driver) bundled with Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 consist of a bug that cause the whole Netbook to freeze when unloading the module. That mean, for each shut down or reboot, my Netbook will freeze. Even at the last stage of Ubuntu installation by using Wubi, my Netbook will still freeze. Every time when this happen, I have to do hard reboot (press the power button to turn off the Netbook and then turn on again). This caused the damage to my Netbook.
The bug of the module has been fixed in latest version of Wireless modules downloaded from http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download . However, the version bundled with Ubuntu is old version that still having the bug.
I need to reinstall Ubuntu on my Netbook. I need to use it immediately. I cannot wait until the next version of Ubuntu to be released. But, I do not want my Netbook to freeze again. I do not want my Netbook to be damaged again.I only want to use Wubi to install Ubuntu because I do not want to do anything that affect the partitions in my hard disk. And, I do not want to run Ubuntu in virtual machine because Windows 7 itself already used a lot of memory.So, what am I going to do to install Ubuntu safely without facing freeze? Please advice.
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Jul 18, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS together with my Windows 7... My Question is: How do i uninstall Ubuntu without affecting my Windows Partition
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May 3, 2011
I wanna uninstall my ubuntu.
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Mar 7, 2010
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.
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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).
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Jun 5, 2010
Unlike previous versions, Ubuntu 10.04 do not lists ADD/REMOVE programs under its Application Menu!?
What's the way to uninstall programs? I know about adding new ones through Ubuntu Software Center!
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Aug 5, 2010
I' trying to uninstall nicotine+ 1.2.14 with no success. I first noticed there was something wrong when everytime I install a package there was an error with nicotine+.I've tried to uninstall it many times but the setup is interrupted.Is there a way to uninstall this manually? I was using Jaunty 9.04 and recently upgrade to Karmic 9.10I'm using a Compaq Mini 311c 1020SA Netbook.
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Oct 26, 2010
I've installed xubuntu 10.10.is there a way to uninstall it completely?
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Nov 4, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 along with my Windows 7 operating system. After quite a bit of trial and testing, I've decided to remove Ubuntu. I probably did this incorrectly, but I deleted the Ubuntu partition from within Windows 7 partition manager. The next time I booted the system, the computer tried booting with Grub and failed due to not finding the partition.I've since reinstalled Ubuntu just to be able to dual-boot again. How do I cleanly remove Ubuntu and the Grub boot manager?
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Nov 15, 2010
So this all started I made a video in PiTiVi and wanted to upload it to ....., that didn't go well so I looked around and found out that transmageddon is what I needed to convert the file into one acceptable for ..... and this is were it gets fun.So the install gets stuck at 58% for like 6+hours so a restart the computer boot back in it says it's not install so I try again to install it and it says blah blah it never finnished installing so I try to sudo apt-get remove transmageddon says I need to sudo dpkg --configure -a so I do then I try again
Oops@crap:~$ sudo apt-get remove transmageddon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Mar 4, 2011
I'm trying to unstall Ubuntu 10.4 in a hd from a live Cd. The problem that I have is that even though I can reach the menu screen when I select even the options Install or Use without changes the sistem shows the ubuntu logo page with the little dots below changin colors but It won't go any further.
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Jun 15, 2011
I dual boot with XP, My upgrade to 11.04 has been two weeks of FUBAR. I want the 10.04 LTS again. With the 10.04 disk in, I get to the point of "Prepare Disk Space"; it shows XP-pro 81Gb and Ubuntu 11.04 75Gb. There I must choose side-by-side, Use Entire Disk, or Specify partitions Manually. My Question/Problem> The new 11.04 kernel seems so incompatible with my system that I wonder if I need to delete or reformat. Am I likely to have success if I just tell it to do side-by-side.
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Jan 14, 2009
I want to uninstall Ubuntu and then install F10 but I cannot get any info on how to achieve the former.
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Feb 8, 2010
I'm afraid that if I delete the partition Ubuntu is on it'll mess up GRUB and I won't be able to boot into Windows. here's the link to what my partitions currently look like: [URL}...
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Mar 7, 2010
How would I go about un-installing ubuntu under these circumstances?
-Dual-Booted
-wubi-uninstall.exe not working
-On same partition as windows and cant format
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Jun 24, 2010
i have an hp laptop currently dual booting ubuntu 10.04 and windows xp. i want to install windows 7 on the windows xp partition of the hard drive. to do this do i insert my win 7 disk while running xp and load the installer from there or i need to uninstall ubuntu and then reinstall it after putting win 7 on? or whats the easiest way to put win 7 on without messing up or involving the ubuntu partition?
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Jun 27, 2010
I recently performed an online update from 9.10 to 10.4 LTS. Unfortunately, the install did not go very well because Bonager cannot be removed; hence the package system is left in an inconsistent state. Attempts to remove Bonager using apt-get does not work.
At this point, I'm thinking that I'll need to perform a fresh install, starting from scratch.
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Aug 1, 2010
I have had ubuntu on my PC for a number of years, but its getting slower and slower so I have decided to uninstall in and maybe put xbuntu on instead, how do I get rid of it without killing my xp partition?
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Aug 14, 2010
I installed ubuntu by using Wubi to try it out. When I restatered and booted up ubuntu it said claimed to be finishing up installations which was taking nearly 1.5 hours of getting nowhere before I got frustrated and shut it off. I wen't back on windows to see if a re installation would be better. But my computer didn't seem to agree on that and wouldn't uninstall it. So I manually deleted the files myself. Now when I start up my computer I still see the choice to boot up kubuntu but yet there is no kubuntu if I select it. Any ideas how to get rid of the selection and why wubi didn't work? Not even live CD's are working on my computer.
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Aug 26, 2010
Have the same problem and can't uninstall, seemingly due to circular dependencies among firefox, firefox-3.0, firefox-branding and firefox-3.0-branding. how to break out of that?
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Sep 4, 2010
how to uninstall a video driver from Ubuntu 10.04?
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Nov 6, 2010
I am trying to update my bandwidthd but it says that i should reinstall it, but when i do that it just throws me an error. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 in case it helps. I am getting really frustrated by this and don't know to fix it because it wont let me uninstall, reinstall, upgrade, or update.
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Feb 19, 2011
i have done a "wubi" installation of ubuntu 10.10 in my F: drive of HD.But the installation got some errors and now i wan to uninstall the ubuntu without losing my other data in F: drive.i have tried uninstalling it from "add or remove programs" in control panel of woindows XP but there is no program as ubuntu in it.
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