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TotalNoob

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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,19:32

It may not be suported or whatever, but I STILL got DSL installed in my harddrive as any OS (I dont boot it from a pen or from a CD), and STILL I got stuff from myDSL installed, rebooting doesnt make them go away. so the question STILL is: HOW DO I UNINSTALL THIS STUFF?

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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,19:38

Yeah, What's that 'crude' way?

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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,20:18

Look back on my first (edited) post for a brief explaination of how the different types of mydsl packages are installed.

Some more information on the *.dsl type....

Keep your original package file. If you don't have it anymore, download it again from the mydsl repository
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/
If you don't have the original package you won't be able to know what files are installed by that package (myDSL is *not* a package management system...it doesn't keep track of what's installed).

Use this command to list files in the package:

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tar -tzvf filename.dsl

Now you know what files were installed, you can remove them (probably needs to be done as root). As I said before, use caution when doing this...some packages may have overwritten files that were already in DSL. While I believe mydsl packages *shouldn't* do this, I'm pretty sure it still happens occasionally. Files in "bin" directories are probably ok to delete. Files in "share/program_name" directories are almost definitely ok to delete. Files in "lib" directories are tricky. It's pretty much impossible to tell most of the time whether the file was an original part of DSL, unless you have a list of DSL's libs handy. Sometimes it's best just to leave the libs alone unless you're certain you know what you're doing. Removing the bin and share file(s) is enough to remove the bulk of a program in most cases.

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TotalNoob

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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,21:36

thanks milkshaw, that realy helped

Ploppy

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Posted: Jan. 31 2006,19:26

Yes right , some people here act like bad teachers , I know it all ,you newbees dont blabla.... It sucks, this is not school ,looks more like a help forum

Milkshaw was absolutely right , but I found another easier way do this:
Every dsl is nothing but an tar.gz file , so all you have to do is Rename the
xyz.dsl to xyz.tar.gz , and then leftclick and plugin>unpack so you can view all its content , I would suggest to keep the files in the /lib folder , they might be used by other programs too , best thing is just to delete the bigger files like binaries in /usr/bin and the help-docs in /usr/share, and of cause dont forget
the entrys in ./xtdesktop and in the ./fluxbox menu.lst

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