[Techtalk] Re: Techtalk digest - uninstalling programs in Linux

Marian Routh malke at attbi.com
Wed May 1 05:37:52 EST 2002


On Wednesday May 01 2002 4:45 am, techtalk-request at linuxchix.org wrote:
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Thanks for all the suggstions about uninstalling SOT Office.  Yes, it is 
similar to StarOffice in that you install the program as root and then 
each user (in my case, only me) runs the resultant secondary 
installation in their home directory.  So from what you're saying, I 
should rpm -qa | grep SOT and just delete everything I find (assuming 
that rpm -e doesn't work).  Believe me, you wouldn't want me to post 
the rpm - it was a 70MB d/l and has unpacked itself to be something 
giant.

 SOT Office is from the folks who made BestLinux (recently renamed back 
to SOT Linux) and is Yet Another Office Suite based on StarOffice/Open 
Office.  I installed it in my search for something to really replace MS 
Word.  OT:  I took a look at CrossOffice from Codeweavers, but it 
doesn't sound like it's ready for primetime.  I still need to dual 
boot.

Cheers and thanks again,

Marian
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. Re: Uninstalling programs in Linux (David Merrill)
>    2. Re: Uninstalling programs in Linux (Mary)
>    3. Re: Uninstalling programs in Linux (Malcolm Tredinnick)
>    4. sub/super-netting (kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net)
>    5. Re: sub/super-netting (Malcolm Tredinnick)
>    6. Re: Uninstalling programs in Linux (Rebecca J. Walter)
>    7. Re: multiple server backup (hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk)
>    8. failing to build install floppy (Conor Daly)
>    9. Re: ogg vorbis player (Nils Philippsen)
>   10. Re: failing to build install floppy (Nils Philippsen)
>   11. Re: Uninstalling programs in Linux (hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk)
>   12. Re: Uninstalling programs in Linux (Marian Routh)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:04:44 -0500
> From: David Merrill <david at lupercalia.net>
> To: LinuxChix Tech Talk <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Uninstalling programs in Linux
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 06:50:45PM -0700, Marian Routh wrote:
> > Hi - Here's a Windows-centric question for you:  How do I uninstall
> > a program that I don't want any more?  I'd like to get rid of SOT
> > office, which I didn't install using SuSE's Yast2 updater.  I just
> > d/led the proggie and ran the rpm as root.
>
> If you installed using rpm, you uninstall using rpm also.
>
> > I logged in as root and typed rpm -e /home/me/name-of-rpm-package
> > and the console told me the package was not installed!  Which it
> > is.  So I tried just calling it by its name, SOT_Office.  Same
> > response.  I looked in SOT's readme, and there's nothing about how
> > to remove it (I guess they couldn't conceive of that).
>
> It must have some other name. Try typing 'rpm -qa' to get a list of
> everything you have installed, and look for it. Some other tricks to
> find it:
>
> 	rpm -qa | grep foo
>
> will list any programs containing 'foo' anywhere in the package name
>
> 	rpm -qa | less
>
> will load the list in the 'less' program, so you can page up and down
> through it. You can also type the '/' key, 'foo', and enter to search
> for the 'foo' characters.
>
> > Then I tried kpackage and SOT showed up twice.  The first one
> > returned an error of "can't find readme in file index" and several
> > other files. Then it disappeared from the kpackage listing.  So I
> > clicked on the other one, and it tells me SOT isn't installed.  And
> > yet it is still living there in its folder in my home directory,
> > taking up a lot of space.  Help! Help!
>
> Now *that's* weird, and I don't know what's going on. Maybe you have
> the rpm plus some other version of it installed somehow? Or perhaps
> your rpm database is busted. If that's the case, you can run
>
> 	rpm --rebuilddb
>
> to regenerate the database.
>
> Wait a sec. What do you mean it's lying there in your home directory?
> How did you install it into your home directory? Is that how it's
> designed to work?
>
> BTW, if you can post the rpm file for me to download, I can check it
> out and tell you exactly what to do to uninstall it, by installing it
> myself on a test system.
>
> HTH (Hope This Helps),

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