Questions tagged [uninstall]
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Can I Remove GUI From Debian?
I just did my first install of any Linux OS, and I accidentally selected "Desktop GUI" in the install, but I want to build everything myself. Is there any way by which I can remove the GUI environment without re-installing OS?
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how to remove all installed dependent packages while removing a package in centos 7?
I am using CentOS 7. I installed okular, which is a PDF viewer, with the command:
sudo yum install okular
As you can see in the picture below, it installed 37 dependent packages to install okular.
But I wasn't satisfied with the features of the…
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How can I uninstall all packages from one Debian source?
I previously added some external sources to /etc/apt/sources.list.d but I now want to remove one of them. I also want to:
remove all packages solely from that source
revert all packages to versions in my original source(s)
alternatively, make a…
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How to remove Gnome's default pre-installed extensions?
I'm on Debian Wheezy stable with Gnome 3.4 and have several default extensions, which on the 'Installed Extensions' page at https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ (using Iceweasel's Gnome Shell Integration plugin), are not able to be removed like the…
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How to uninstall or remove recently-installed packages
I installed the development packages for X11 today and now want to remove them. I do not remember the exact name of the package that I installed. I installed by running apt-get install ... and now want to remove the development package using apt-get…
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Safe to remove snap on Ubuntu Server?
I don't use snap and never install snap packages.
On a new Ubuntu Server 18.04, snap list shows:
No snaps are installed yet.
Is it safe to remove it?
I'm not sure what weird dependencies are going on in the background - so I don't want to…
lonix
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Unable to remove devtoolset-7 from my CentOS System
I am trying to remove devtoolset-7 from my CentOS system. For this I am running following commands:-
sudo yum remove devtoolset-7
sudo yum remove devtoolset-7-libatomic-devel
sudo yum remove devtoolset-7-libatomic-devel
After running these…
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How to remove programs completely on Arch Linux, including files that it created in home directories?
I'd atom installed on the system and tried to remove it with:
pacman -Rs atom
I still have a .atom folder in /home/user and another Atom folder in /home/user/.config, not sure whether there's anymore left in any other place!
How to remove programs…
user358527
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Remove vim manually after checkinstall
I downloaded this Vim release and extract the tarball on Ubuntu 16.04. Then I switched to the vim directory and run sudo checkinstall, the procedure ends up with:
Makefile:2412: recipe for target 'installpack' failed
make[1]: *** [installpack]…
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Removing unused applications/programs
I've done a bit of searching, and have come to no perfect answer, so I'm wondering, is there a good way to uninstall (and purge dependencies of) unused applications/programs in my Ubuntu Server install?
When I first installed 16.04, there were a ton…
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How can I remove a bunch of ancient packages on debian?
I'm running sid, and in the course of trying to cross-grade my system from i386 to amd64 I came across some ancient packages that I couldn't remove. Some background: I've had this system since potato, or maybe earlier.
There are about a hundred…
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How to remove VirtualBox vboxdrv kernel module?
I previously was using VirtualBox on Fedora 30, but recently moved to using Boxes (review) and am quite happy with the switch. I've removed VirtualBox, but upon booting up my system, I still get a tainted kernel message:
vboxdrv: module…
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Uninstalling or updating programs installed in /usr/local
When installing programs (e.g. openmpi, comsol, lammps) to /usr/local, usually a lot of separate files are created in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/src etc.
Now when I want to uninstall (e.g. for updating), then finding each relevant…
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How to uninstall OpenLDAP in RedHat?
I have installed OpenLDAP with yum, but I have accidentally deleted some of the config files. I am not able to recover them. I want to uninstall it. I tried the following command but it ends with an error:
--> Processing Dependency: PackageKit-glib…
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MongoDB will not uninstall
So, it would appear that following the official MongoDB installation instructions when installing on Debian - you're heading for a world of pain. Firstly, it didn't install correctly so now - i'm trying to remove all installed MongoDB packages so…
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