Uninstalling Mozilla

vharishankar · 09-23-2004, 09:25 AM

How do I uninstall Mozilla?

I just upgraded to Firefox and I want to get rid of Mozilla.

Btw, I don't even know the package name because it was installed with my distro. I'm sure that it's a package file but I cannot find out the name.

How do I find out where the Mozilla packages are installed and how do I cleanly uninstall (or erase) them?

wipe · 09-23-2004, 10:20 AM

As the root user, type the following on the command line:

rpm -e mozilla

Simon

vharishankar · 09-23-2004, 10:43 AM

Tried that. Got the following error:

Code:

error: Failed dependencies:
        libmozjs.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.4.1-17
        libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.4.1-17
        libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-6
        libxpcom_compat.so is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.4.1-17
        mozilla = 37:1.4.1-17 is needed by (installed) mozilla-mail-1.4.1-17
        mozilla >= 1.4.1 is needed by (installed) vlc-0.7.0-1

wipe · 09-23-2004, 10:54 AM

Oh yes, mozilla-mail is a separate package. So:

rpm -e --nodeps mozilla mozilla-mail

The --nodeps option is not necessarily a wise move because it causes RPM to ignore the dependencies. Normally packages are dependent on other packages and when those are removed, your programs might not function properly any more (in every aspect). So if you do it, take a note somewhere so you can install the missing packages again if things start to go wrong.

After removing Mozilla, you'll still have a ".mozilla/default" directory under your home directory. It holds all of your settings, e-mail and other personalisations. Firefox (the newest versions) has a similar directory, ".mozilla/firefox", so don't delete the whole "~/.mozilla". If you have installed some plug-ins, they'll likely still be somewhere, e.g. in "/usr/lib/mozilla-<version number>/plugins".

I use this kind of script to see what's installed on my system:
rpm -qa --qf "%-36{name} %{summary}\n"|sort|less -S

(The actual script is much longer, involving a file to hold the packet list so that it doesn't have to be pulled from the database every time.)

Regards
Simon

vharishankar · 09-24-2004, 08:41 PM

I think I won't uninstall Mozilla after all... Too many dependencies and I cannot take a risk. Too bad about the waste of disk space.