Ubuntu :: Uninstall All The Bloat Without Breaking OS?
May 24, 2011
Is there a way to uninstall all the bloat without breaking ubuntu? It seems like some things (banshee, the calendar, ubuntu one) are integrated with the notifcations and probably other areas too. I think last time I uninstalled them, the calendar was still there in the notifications but clicking a date did nothing, and I'm sure there were other leftover goodies that I didn't take time to find before re-fresh-installing ubuntu. I think ubuntu has a lot of potential as a linux distro, but I'm not interested in their promoted software (i.e. libreoffice)
Another question: when you install an application in windows and then uninstall it, there remain uninstalled changes to your system (leftover icons, links, shortcuts, folders, files, registry entries) like the uninstaller was drunk on the job. Is this fixed in ubuntu or are there remnants of everything you uninstall?Also comments welcome on what you consider both bloat and safe to uninstall.
I like that everything works out of the box (had to install codecs etc, but thats standard); but I dont like that there are 260 processes running. Is there a utility to stop unnecessary processes from running in Ubuntu 10.10? I used rcconf but there did not seem to be a whole lot of startup processes that were enabled. Yet somehow I am running 260 processes now.
I have an EeePC 701 4G running Ubuntu Netbook (10.04). I installed the system on its 4GB SSD for speed reasons - fast SD cards are expensive. I keep all user data on a fairly slow SD card. Problem is, after a few updates, I have less and less free space on the SSD. Since updating replaces old packages with newer ones, shouldn't the size remain more or less the same? I'm almost out of space and will probably have to stop updating the system soon... and yes, I do perform apt-get clean after every update. It helps, but the size is still steadily creeping upwards.
The problem is: after i typed: cat </dev/urandom (i think it inserted a controll character where i cant find it)at my bash prompt (sh and python are fine) and only once per prompt before the line should break it just starts at the beginning of the same line and overwrites itsself (only on the screen its interpreted as typed) .This really bugs me because i love working with bash and i don't want to reinstall the system.I tryed reinstalling bash and readline without success.is there any config files i could check? my PS1=e[44m[e]0;u@h: wa]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}u@h:w$ e[0m
I started using 10.10 a few months ago and had very few problems aside from a few minor issues with Wine. I frequently used Skype under 10.10 and it ran perfectly with no issues whatsoever.
Recently I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 and well... basically things have just gone downhill from there.
Over the past few days Skype has been ridiculously unstable, I'll be talking to somebody using text chat and it will essentially freeze up. These freezes can occur within minutes of starting Skype and are very infuriating. I am still able to type and send messages but the "message not sent" icon will appear next to each of them and the timestamp on each message will be identical (the messages in question will not send even after a restart of Skype). This problem will persist until I force-quit the application, closing it normally will not work and often I have to restart my computer entirely before it will work again.
I have tried updating to the latest version of Skype to no avail (if anything I think it has made matters worse, but that may just be my imagination.)
I'm not particularly command savvy, just posting on the off chance that anybody has encountered the same problem or has found a relatively simple fix. I don't really want to have to re-install the entire OS just to roll back to 10.10.
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?
Everything works great at the moment, no hardware problems or anything like that. But whenever I enable the proprietary nVidia driver 185, it causes the boot screen to not come up, Ubuntu stops recognising my sound-card and refuses to work and when I try to shut down or restart, it just takes me back to the log in screen. When I remove the driver, everything works okay again.
I'm on Karmic, and currently the only firefox I have in the repository is 3.5.9, but I would like to install 3.6. Is there a way to just upgrade the current Firefox install without breaking any of my addons/settings or synaptic (and avoid having it screw the version up later)?
I have a folder that contain about 2,5gb of debs ranging from vlc, gstreamer, jokosher and audacity etcthose programs I backed up with dpkg repack, now I want to restore them but sudo -i .deb breaks my systemI wonder if there is a to install them and skipping those which dependenciws are not met
I'm in widows xp sp3 right now, I'm just wondering how do I go about, setting up dual booting with out breaking my Windows Xp OS, being last time - I setup Dual booting with the Ubuntu setup disk and that didn't work at all, Xp was broken after that. Would anybody know of software that does the dual-booting setup from windows with the linux ubuntu iso image?
Please review my webmin Linux firewall. This is a squid proxy / Firewall / Router. Everything works fine until I change that last line to reject or drop all. Then the traffic behind the firewall that is trying to reach the internet gets borked. I can only assume that something is killing the connections to squid. But everything looks right to me. Here is my prerouting. (please ignore the green box) The red box is the action to be taken following the given rule. But I don't think the problem is in prerouting.
I have an Asus eeePC 1001PX which I have installed Linux to. With a 160 GB hard drive, space is limited, which makes it a problem for me that Asus has chosen to place the 16 GB Windows Recovery partition (which I intend to keep in case of emergency or sale) in the middle of the disk, essentially preventing me from partitioning the disk to my liking with one partition taking up the entire drive (except the space used by the recovery partition. Is there any way to move the recovery partition to the beginning or to the end of the disk without breaking it?
On my Sid box, I did an update and it appears it also updates udev's rule set that doesn't like the notion of dm-crypt or LVM. For example:
Code: trilarian@Debian-Desktop:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/dm-1 9.9G 2.4G 7.1G 26% / tmpfs 438M 0 438M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 192K 9.9M 2% /dev tmpfs 438M 0 438M 0% /dev/shm /dev/md0 94M 83M 12M 88% /boot /dev/dm-2 1008M 630M 328M 66% /var /dev/dm-3 600G 291G 310G 49% /home When I used to run df I would get lvm/dm name instead of number, like: Code: /dev/mapper/raid-root 9.9G 2.4G 7.1G 26% / What I need to change in udev to restore the old function?
I've only gone into the first case statement of the first switch and I am trying to get out of it but the break statement I added doesn't seem to have any effect and it just goes on to the next case instead of exiting the switch.
Code: import java.util.*; import javax.swing.*; public class A2 { public static void main(String[] args) { double gross_Pay; int payment_Method; final double salary_Pay = 1000.00; final double hourly_Pay = 25.00; double overtime1 = 20.00; double overtime2 = 30.00; .....
my issue is that the when i put in the correct input its going into the loop like i put in incorrect input and wont break out of the loop even with the correct input entered
I continually get times where an applet on the top panel breaks, such as the Indicator Session Applet, where it doesn't show the applet, and is mimicking the clocks display, but frozen, and no functionality. This is seen in the photo, where you can clearly see the right time and applet as 5:11 and the frozen one as 4:49.
Working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4). Working at a new company, and the previous guy had created a shell script to take care of a specific task. His role was unique as the manager took advantage of his programming ability (wasn't a part of his job). On top of that, I'm no programmer either. I'm trying to figure out what this script is doing because it's throwing a warning. REM this is remove /home/public/ccnf* (remove anything that starts with ccnf) rm /home/public/ccnf*
I understand that this retrieves anything that starts with ccnf that has been changed at any given time, but I don't understand anything else after -ctime... find /usr/CC/DATA1/RPT/ -name "ccnf*" -ctime -1 -print | xargs fgrep -l "GB-1 " > /tmp/t.file REM while read line = read each line that is "printed" from the above command? while read line do REM copy each line that was read from above command to /home/public/ cp -p $line /home/public/ REM don't know about this one =( done < /tmp/t.file REM remove /tmp/t.file that was made by previous command? rm /tmp/t.file
How to break strings of command into multi-lines in crontab? e.g. Code: # the following is a very long a gruesome command to be run at 09:59 Monday to Friday. 59 09 * * 1-5 source $HOME/some-definitions; sh /usr/local/my/long/name/application/bin/hello $(date +\%Y\%m\%d) >>/var/log/my/long/name/application/log/hello.log
Code: for i in $list; do <some statements> if i > 5 exit <more statements> done
That is, want to terminate the iteration just after 5 iterations. A first problem, is that list is a string and not a number. It's all I can say, except to keep reading bash monster manual.
when I'm traying to watch 720p and 1080p movies, MKV format. The movie is breaking all time, do I need to install any codecs or extansions, or use another application.I tried VLC player, and it is same. Well i had same problem with Ubuntu 10.10 and could't fix it.
I am still running Debian Lenny and have found that the curl version 7.18 is just too outdated for my needs, I would rather not do an upgrade just yet to the stable release of squeeze. I was looking for some information on how I could install a newer version of curl and libcurl without breaking my system.
when i try to instal TS 2 client on Ubuntu it starts and im able to connect to the server, but here the problems start. The Sound notifications are "breaking" ,i cant another word to describe it only hear it by frames. My friends talking the same thing. And when i start to talk the green light pops up a litle after i start talking. I recorded my voice for testing, and its framing/breaking as well.
Ubuntu does not see any hardware RAIDs on this server - Intel confirms that they do not support Debian distros with this onboard SATA controller.
Tried going with CentOS and OpenSUSE ... CentOS would install, but wouldn't boot. OpenSUSE would work but after multiple installs, Samba wouldn't start.
That left us with Ubuntu Server.
While Ubuntu Server can't see a hardware raid, it can see each of the hard drives individually. From there, I created a software RAID during Ubuntu setup and was able to install.
Initially had some issues with mdadm "losing" the hot-spare ... was able to fix that by adding sd[abc][12] to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf ...
It worked fine until I plugged a WD MyBook usb hard drive into the machine.
I lose the hot spare (configured on /dev/sdc) because it mounts the USB hard drive there.
I need to be able to make it mount the USB hard drive AFTER mdadm configures /dev/sdc as the 3rd Hitachi hard drive
I have been searching through the web trying to find a way to install (mount?) and format a used 80G HD.I have installed GParted and it makes no sense to me. None of the tutorials on ..... have been helpful either (except to get me frustrated) I want to learn Linux and use it for my main os but, having these troubles makes it difficult.
the upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 has proved to be an unmitigated disaster for my netbook. I have no menus! Nothing at the top (i.e. the usual Gnome desktop with "Browse and run installed applications," "Applications," "Places," "System") and no Unity buttons available wherever I put the cursor.Plus, when the system goes to sleep and I press the power button to revive it, it reboots! I don't understand how v. 11.04 is an improvement over v. 10.10.
how I can uninstall v 11.04 -- bearing in mind I have no menus -- so I can reinstall v. 10.10?
