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Topic: uninstalling .dsl apps?, how to remove installed apps?

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Posted: April 08 2005,21:46

hello!

I have a hd installed 1.0rc2 dsl.

I installed some apps via myDSL.

what is the right way to remove / uninstall an app?

thanks.

cu joh.

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Posted: April 09 2005,00:49

Reboot you system, if you are LiveCD or Frugal, which is what MyDSL is for.

Since you are running hdinstalled, there is no safe way to remove a MyDSL extension, for most extensions, anyway.

So if you /really/ want it gone, a reinstall is the only way.

But you should be running a frugal/live-cd to use MyDSL.

-J.P.

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Posted: April 09 2005,01:35

For uci in DSL 1.0 you can remove them the same way they were installed.

For .tar.gz you can remove simply by deleting the /opt/whatever directory associated with the extension (typically has the same name as the extension). To remove menu item and icon, look in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu and /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/ respectively.

For .dsl you can remove them (carefully) by hand.
Do "tar -ztf filename.dsl > files.txt", then look in files.txt for the list of files installed. I can't stress enough the importance of selectively deleting files. Some files in the list may have been part of the original DSL system, overwritten during the install. The ideal dsl extension would not do this, but the process of weeding out duplicates may be more work than a dsl creator is willing to do. In any case, a directory named the same as the mydsl application is generally a safe bet for removal, such as /usr/share/myapp

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