Is it possible to remove dropline-gnome.. ?

sh1ft · 02-21-2005, 01:08 PM

Hi, I want to take out dropline-gnome for various reasons I won't go into. I tried doing it once before but it completly screwed my system.

PAM in particular I want to get rid of, hen I attempted this via the dropline-installer it broke acres of things, couldn't play video, music etc.. Then when I rebooted I couldn't log in anymore (PAM issues [is it even possible to remove?]). So I managed to boot into a root shell via lilo and reinstall dropline-gnome, leaving me back where I started.

Don't tell me to do a fresh install, that's not an option.

LiNuCe · 02-21-2005, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sh1ft
Hi, I want to take out dropline-gnome for various reasons I won't go into. I tried doing it once before but it completly screwed my system.

PAM in particular I want to get rid of, hen I attempted this via the dropline-installer it broke acres of things, couldn't play video, music etc.. Then when I rebooted I couldn't log in anymore (PAM issues [is it even possible to remove?]). So I managed to boot into a root shell via lilo and reinstall dropline-gnome, leaving me back where I started.

Don't tell me to do a fresh install, that's not an option.

I think you can do it that way :

Code:

# cd /var/log/packages
# removepkg *dl
# mount /mnt/cdrom (mount install cd #1)
# upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/*.tgz
# mount /mnt/cdrom (mount install cd #2)
# upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/*.tgz

Next, remove all packages you don't want/need as doing so will restore a full installed Slackware, but this is the only way to properly restore you packages. Last but not least, you may want to try these GNOME 2.8.2 packages for Linux Slackware 10.1 :)

sh1ft · 02-21-2005, 02:51 PM

Sounds good, but is there any way to do this over the internet using repositories? The only slackware cds I have are 9.0 as I haven't done a fresh install since then

. If not I guess I can always download and burn the latest, but I don't believe it would be easiest.

Anyway I'm home for reading week on my parents windows laptop so I won't be able to try this out for awhile.

That install-new switch looks neat, that was the kind of thing I needed before, can't wait to try it out.

BrianW · 02-21-2005, 03:19 PM

You could use ftp or rsync to download the package folders you need to your HD. Possibly slaptget or swaret could do all the upgrading?

shilo · 02-21-2005, 05:15 PM

Couple of things:

Quote:

code:

# cd /var/log/packages
# removepkg *dl
# mount /mnt/cdrom (mount install cd #1)
# upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/*.tgz
# mount /mnt/cdrom (mount install cd #2)
# upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/*.tgz

That should work great, but you may want to first "ls *dl.tgz >> Hey.I.need.to.install.these.from.Slackware".

Then you can use mirrors to go get the packages that you need. Of course, you won't need all of them (you won't find PAN, e.g.) and the versions may be different.

Also, "removepkg *dl", does that work? I always forget if it works, or if you need "removepkg *dl.tgz" or "removepkg ./*dl.tgz". I can't remember, but I thought I'd just throw those out in case it doesn't work

LiNuCe · 02-22-2005, 04:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by shilo
Also, "removepkg *dl", does that work? I always forget if it works, or if you need "removepkg *dl.tgz" or "removepkg ./*dl.tgz". I can't remember, but I thought I'd just throw those out in case it doesn't work

"removepkg *dl" does work because first I change directory to /var/log/packages/ : BASH will replace the "*dl" pattern in the command line with filenames matching it, then BASH executes "removepkg package1-dl package2-dl (...)". In fact, each time I have to use removepkg, I first change directory to /var/log/packages/, I try "ls [pattern]" and I run "removepkg [pattern]" when I'm satisfied.