cannot uninstall software from slackware 14.0

tautvilas · 11-27-2012, 10:27 AM

Hi, I would like to uninstall thunderbird, kmail, kde blogger tool and more. These programs do not appear as packages in

Code:

pkgtool

neither I can delete them typing i.e

Code:

removepkg thunderbird

in /usr directory.
How can I do it?

Thanks

Cultist · 11-27-2012, 10:34 AM

thunderbird's package name is mozilla-thunderbird, so you'll have to removepkg using that. KDE's blogging tool is called Blogilo (if I recall correctly), so if you have it you might need to uninstall using that package name. The others I'm not sure about.

tautvilas · 11-27-2012, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cultist

thunderbird's package name is mozilla-thunderbird, so you'll have to removepkg using that. KDE's blogging tool is called Blogilo (if I recall correctly), so if you have it you might need to uninstall using that package name. The others I'm not sure about.

No, mozilla-thunderbird nor Blogilo are not the correct names to remove these programs.

Cultist · 11-27-2012, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tautvilas

No, mozilla-thunderbird nor Blogilo are not the correct names to remove these programs.

I just did a test with mozilla-thunderbird:

Code:

root@nova01:~# removepkg mozilla-thunderbird

Removing package /var/log/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-17.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0...
Removing files:

not sure why yours wouldn't work. Did you build a custom package yourself?

tautvilas · 11-27-2012, 11:00 AM

No, I did not. I installed slackware 14.0 and that is where mozilla-thunderbird comes. That's weird

TommyC7 · 11-27-2012, 11:08 AM

Packages aren't in /usr, they're in /var/log/packages. The package name in /var/log/packages/ is what you "removepkg."

tautvilas · 11-27-2012, 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TommyC7

Packages aren't in /usr, they're in /var/log/packages. The package name in /var/log/packages/ is what you "removepkg."

I know that. That is precisely the problem. There is no package called *thunderbird* in /var/log/packages.
Btw, I said if you type removepkg in /usr, you can remove a package the same way as you do it from pkgtool.

Didier Spaier · 11-27-2012, 11:29 AM

If a Slackware package is installed with a Slackware tool it should show in /var/log/packages.

So, are you sure that thunderbird is (still) installed?.

To check, type as a regular user (not as root):

Code:

whereis thunderbird

And:

Code:

ls -l /usr/bin/thunderbird

Please post the output of both commands.

PS Or maybe you inadvertently removed (part of) /var/log/packages? This the only other possibility I can think of, right now.

PS2 If you made a full Slackware 14 installation (but the KDEI series) following command should return a little less than 1070:

Code:

ls -1 /var/log/packages | wc -l

tautvilas · 11-27-2012, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

If a Slackware package is installed with a Slackware tool it should show in /var/log/packages.

So, are you sure that thunderbird is (still) installed?.

To check, type as a regular user (not as root):

Code:

whereis thunderbird

And:

Code:

ls -l /usr/bin/thunderbird

Please post the output of both commands.

PS Or maybe you inadvertently removed (part of) /var/log/packages? This the only other possibility I can think of, right now.

PS2 If you made a full Slackware 14 installation (but the KDEI series) following command should return a little less than 1070:

Code:

ls -1 /var/log/packages | wc -l

Code:

whereis thunderbird

returns

Code:

thunderbird: /usr/bin/thunderbird /usr/X11R6/bin/thunderbird /usr/bin/X11/thunderbird /usr/X11/bin/thunderbird

Code:

ls -l /usr/bin/thunderbird

returns

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Nov 25 23:19 /usr/bin/thunderbird -> /usr/lib64/thunderbird-15.0.1/thunderbird

Thunderbird is not partially removed etc.

Didier Spaier · 11-27-2012, 01:20 PM

Then what is the output of

Code:

wc -1 /var/log/packages | wc -l

Anyhow, if there is no /var/log/packages/thunderbird* in /var/log/packages, either something went wrong during installation or that file was removed.

In that case the database /var/log/packages should be rebuilt, otherwise Slackware tools for packages management won't work.

tautvilas · 11-27-2012, 01:30 PM

It returns 1130. I removed packages I dont use using removepkg and installed multilib packages to be able to use skype and virtual-box.

Didier Spaier · 11-27-2012, 01:45 PM

Then only a few packages are in concern. Good. Try this for these:

Code:

upgradepkg --install-new --reinstall <package>
removekg <package>

After that the package should be successfully removed.