Re: Program??

Stanley Long wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 15:58, Greg Madden wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 13:25, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
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>>>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 .
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>Either that was true, or that is what we were originally told :=)
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>>RPM by itself has options to manage packages, read a good howto on RPM's
>>to see all the things it can do.
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>The Redhat-Package-Manager includes a lot of info, but doesn't always
>use it all (so we have been told). YAST us an RPM administrator, among
>other things.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>The Advanced-Package-Tool advocates among the SuSE crowd are now using
>apt and YAST without conflict. I do apt updates, but sometimes pull a
>new package off the SuSE DVD using YAST. I also install my VariCAD RPMs
>manually. As long as the RPM database rebuild gets invoked, YAST's GUI
>finds and shows everything.
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>Start by reading the apt4rpm page: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
>Proceed to James Ogley's repository:
> http://www.usr-local-bin.org/apt.php
>and then go study the basic RPM stuff linked from either of these.
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>see also: http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/
>"Synaptic (previously known as raptor) is yet-another-GUI-frontend for
>APT. But the major difference from other frontends is that Synaptic is
>meant to be easy to use."
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Thank you for the links. I will start reading them. Hopefully, there
will be a version of apt for suse 9.1 soon.

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Received on Fri May 14 01:24:09 2004