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and downloaded
fahclient_7.6.21_amd64.deb
fahcontrol_7.6.21-1_all.deb
I just downloaded each, and clicked on each and clicked on install.
How do you uninstall apps?
There is Discover and at the bottom right of the Discover window, there is Installed.
But in that list, I don’t see fahclient and fahcontrol.
Does Linux maintain a separate list for things installed from DEB files?
I know that I could do this from the terminal
sudo dpkg -r fahclient
sudo dpkg -r fahcontrol
So, I'm suppose to use Muon to uninstall it?
The fahclient and fahcontrol are in the list of Muon, so that is looking good.
I select fahclient and click Remove and click Apply Changes and it says could not download Packages.
The fahclient and fahcontrol are in the list of Muon, so that is looking good.
I select fahclient and click Remove and click Apply Changes and it says could not download Packages.
Generally, third party software sources such as you linked to, should have a README or similar file which explains how to remove it. It is obviously not part of the Ubuntu/Debian systems or repositories so it is up to the developers to explain.
Generally, third party software sources such as you linked to, should have a README or similar file which explains how to remove it. It is obviously not part of the Ubuntu/Debian systems or repositories so it is up to the developers to explain.
They are deb packages, so users should use whatever deb frontend they are comfortable with.
The fahclient and fahcontrol are in the list of Muon, so that is looking good.
I select fahclient and click Remove and click Apply Changes and it says could not download Packages.
fahcontrol is shown as Broken, to me this is not looking good. When asked to perform an action (install, remove, upgrade, whatever) APT (and Muon is a frontend to APT) tries to repair broken packages, downloading other packages in the process if needed. Looks like a dependency of fahcontrol is missing from Ubuntu repos.
From the apt-get manual page:
Quote:
APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a system's dependency structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention (which usually means using dpkg --remove to eliminate some of the offending packages).
fahcontrol is shown as Broken, to me this is not looking good. When asked to perform an action (install, remove, upgrade, whatever) APT (and Muon is a frontend to APT) tries to repair broken packages, downloading other packages in the process if needed. Looks like a dependency of fahcontrol is missing from Ubuntu repos.
From the apt-get manual page:
This is a fresh install of Kubuntu 18.04 in VirtualBox. I was testing to see if the FAH stuff is functional (install, run, uninstall).
2 of the 3 DEB files installed. That's what you see in Muon.
I could not install
fahviewer_7.6.21_amd64.deb
It says:
Error: Cannot satisfy dependencies
So, in any case, 2 of the DEB were installable. Why can't they be uninstalled from Muon? I a able to uninstall them from the command line.
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