Re: Program??

From: Matthew Dunaway <fert@eagle.ptialaska.net>
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 00:30:40 AKDT

Matthew Dunaway wrote:

>Hassler, Jeff wrote:
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>>RPM's:
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>>You should be able to remove it with YaST under the Add or Remove
>>Software option. Find the .rpm in the right-hand panel, select it and
>>click accept. I haven't used YaST to remove a package, but have used it
>>to install a single package in SuSE 8.2 Pro and Enterprise Server 8.
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>>Should also be able to remove it from the command line. The rpm man
>>pages should give all the info you need.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
>>Of Matthew Dunaway
>>Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:26 PM
>>To: Aklug
>>Subject: Program??
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>>Does anybody know of a program for Linux that will clean up junk/temp=20
>>files? I have no idea what such a program would be called, so that makes
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>>it harder for me to try and find something. I would also like to be able
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>>to uninstall programs, too.
>>Trying to get a grip on system/file maintenance as I am going to=20
>>purchase SUSE 9.1 Pro, and will be getting rid of Windows.
>>I have downloaded and installed a few different programs for SUSE, but=20
>>some of them won't run. No dependency problems or anything like that,=20
>>just won't run. I followed all read me files but still no go. The latest
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>>non running program is Povray. I downloaded the SUSE 9.0 RPM and it=20
>>won't run. I am at a loss on what to do. I followed all the=20
>>instructions, but nothing.
>>That is why I would like to be able to uninstall programs. I have no=20
>>idea how to accomplish this. :-)
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>Thank you. I guess I should study how to use the command line. I haven't
>used it sine the good ol dos days. Also, on my Commodore 64. :-)
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Guess I should learn how to spell before I start trying to learn the
command line. Who knows what I might end up downloading?? :-D

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