Remove Mozilla

Forum: Apps
Topic: Remove Mozilla
started by: raysr

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Posted by raysr on Sep. 30 2004,23:18

I installed Mozilla 1 from Synaptic.  I can't remove it.  I get an error.  The error code is : "Sub Process /usr.bin/dpkg/ returned an error code (1)"

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Posted by raysr on Oct. 04 2004,02:19

C'mon, somebody must know how remove Mozilla.  I've tried from Emelfm  but get permission denied error.  Help me out.

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Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 04 2004,03:00

I don't use synaptic...

But it was my understanding that it is a front-end for apt-get ..

If you bootup with the "dsl 2" command , that should take you to a root shell ..

If this is a HDInstall , exit X ( ctrl-alt-bksp ) ,  and "sudo su" to a root shell

Get the dsl-dpkg package -
" wget < http://ibiblio.org/pub....pkg.dsl > "

Install the dsl-dpkg.dsl -
" mydsl-load /path/to/dsl-dpkg.dsl "

When you installed mozilla the first time, if you recall
changing your sources.list from stable to unstable, do it again now.

Then try typing " apt-get update"  followed by " apt-get remove mozilla "

That's all that comes to mind for now ..

73
ke4nt

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Posted by Rapidweather on Oct. 04 2004,03:11

One unspeakable way is to "whereis mozilla", then hunt all the stuff down with emelfm and delete it. If you wound up with a desktop icon, there is an entry in /home/dsl/.xtdesktop for it. Two entries, actually.
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Don't knock the power of emelfm. I Quick and Dirty'ed an install of Opera for my remaster "master copy" from Redhat 9, on another partition. Used a little guessing, too, and lucked up. Opera runs like a champ!
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I'm guessing that you have a hard drive installation, but if you were using a big restoration tarball, here is a case for keeping the older ones on a memory key or a hard drive partition, with a name such as backup.tar_from_091504.gz for instance. You can then rename it, and restore what you had prior to the changes that you didn't want!
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Now, if I could just get my 256 MB mem key to be recognized!
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Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 04 2004,12:39

Maybe your apt/dpkg is messed up.

Try this to learn more. Open an xterminal and type:

sudo su
apt-get update

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Posted by raysr on Oct. 06 2004,19:45

Thanks for the replies.  When I ctrl alt backspace sudo su and get back to GUI the curser is frozen.  I think I can delete it from Emelfm as when I do, it runs through all the files at the bottom but errors" permission denied".  So if I could get into Emelfm as root I could do it.

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Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 06 2004,20:19

How about ctrl-alt-bksp to the prompt,
then sudo su to root,
then "mc" for midnight commander ..
It works very similar to emelfm for deleting files.
Editing files is another matter as it uses vi ..

73
ke4nt

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Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 06 2004,22:20

Hmm...

Maybe it would be a good idea if MC chose "nano" as the default editor instead of vi  because nano is easier to understand for the new user.

Maybe anothe tweak for the next release of DSL??

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Posted by raysr on Oct. 07 2004,01:41

The numerial commands on the bottom don't work.  I need to be able to log out as user and log back in as root like in Vector.  Oh well, just hate to tie up 25 M.  Thanks.

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Posted by Ninja on Oct. 11 2004,12:46

Is there any way of makeing those commands work?
If not how do you select nano ?
Thanks

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