Re: Program??

Greg Madden wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 13:25, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
>
>
>>Does anybody know of a program for Linux that will clean up junk/temp
>>files? I have no idea what such a program would be called, so that makes
>>it harder for me to try and find something. I would also like to be able
>>to uninstall programs, too.
>>Trying to get a grip on system/file maintenance as I am going to
>>purchase SUSE 9.1 Pro, and will be getting rid of Windows.
>>I have downloaded and installed a few different programs for SUSE, but
>>some of them won't run. No dependency problems or anything like that,
>>just won't run. I followed all read me files but still no go. The latest
>>non running program is Povray. I downloaded the SUSE 9.0 RPM and it
>>won't run. I am at a loss on what to do. I followed all the
>>instructions, but nothing.
>>That is why I would like to be able to uninstall programs. I have no
>>idea how to accomplish this. :-)
>>
>>
>
>You mention Suse, RPM based. It is a funtion of the package manageement
>system. In suse,if you use Yast , afaik, you always need to use Yast .
>RPM by itself has options to manage packages, read a good howto on RPM's
>to see all the things it can do.
>
>Debian has its own package management system. You can 'apt-get remove
><package name>' removes the package leaves configs, or 'dpkg -P <package
>name> removes (purge) package & configs. After doing this you can run
>'deborhan' to identify any unused libraries not being used. This keeps
>dow the clutter. Temp files usually don't accumulate unneeded data.
>
>Debian is using 'apt' for part of its package management, this is
>available on other distro's, Fedora, and as an addon to Suse. You can't
>use apt & Yast with Suse, afaik.
>
>
Actually, I have apt and Synaptic on SUSE 9.0. I still need to read up
on apt to figure out how to update software with it.
On the other hand, if I wait until I get SUSE 9.1 pro, I might not need
to install any other software. I read that it comes with just about any
software package you could ever want or need, or is that just hype?

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Received on Fri May 14 01:15:19 2004