How to remove Apps from HD install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: How to remove Apps from HD install
started by: dr_nobody

Posted by dr_nobody on May 11 2005,15:46

How can help me ??
I want to remove some App's and the Games from my HD install and i tried
apt-get remove dillo and other, but it won't work

thanks Tobias

PS: DSL is the best Distro i know!!!!

Posted by mikshaw on May 11 2005,15:52

I'm just guessing here, but this might help:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/packages.html >

Apparently only certain packages can be removed with apt...others would need to be removed manually.

Posted by dr_nobody on May 11 2005,16:09

thanks for the answer but where can i find the files which i have to remove manually??

thanks Tobias

Posted by mikshaw on May 11 2005,19:00

It depends entirely on the application. The executables are in bin directories,
/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/X11R6/bin. I wouldn't touch /bin, since it's composed of executables vital to running the system.
Configuration files are in /etc...generally they are named according to the application.
Shared data is in /usr/share, /usr/local/share, /usr/X11R6/share, also typically named according to the application.
Some programs are installed into /opt/<programname>. These are usually self-contained programs that can be easily deleted. However, in DSL I think it's mostly for myDSL apps and for some system configs that are writeable by user 'dsl' (or members of the 'staff' group) such as bootlocal.sh. These probably shouldn't be removed in DSL.

There are probably a few program-specific files in other directories, such as lib, but unless you really know what you're doing you shouldn't mess with them.