On Friday 26 October 2007 3:31 am, Rajko M. wrote:

On Thursday 25 October 2007 09:04:52 pm Allen wrote:

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I've tried a few times to uninstall some apps I don't need or use, and when I select them for deletion, it says it's installing them instead... Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?

I did add repos to it so it takes a while before YAST loads up and I've downloaded apps and installed them with it, but a few I'd like to get rid of because I don't use them and they just won't go away.

As I said I launch YAST2, find the apps I want to uninstall, and then mark them for deletion, and then when I finish it says it's installing them instead and they still show up on the SUSE menu.

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks

Mark for deinstallation is trash can. Icon with Z is to refresh or update. Checkmark is for installation. Wrong direction traffic sign is to tell YaST not to touch package.

Yea, I knew that part ;) That's why I thought it was strange. They had some in there that were locked and I was like OK that's odd, I unlocked them, and tried to delete them with the method you said above, which was why I sent a message here because it just wouldn't do that, I thought it was odd and was thinking maybe I was just to tired and screwed up, I am after all human heh. But yea, I will tell them to delete and it shows the trash can but once I have the ones I want trash canned, and finish, it says it's installing them instead. I thought it was odd. Thanks though, the other reply I'll send a separate message for so as to not cause confusion in replies. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Second that can make problem is dependency to other packages, but then after Accept you should see window that pops up with messages about dependency problems.

It will be good if you post what package and what repository it is comming

I snipped some to keep this readable, but yea I'll be looking this over later on, right now I can't as I was just checkign my mail, we're trying to find a cat shelter since someone decided they don't care about their cat anymore and so we've been feeding it and letting it back outside and they don't even feed it. So we're doing something about it so later when we're done I'm going to check again what exactly won't uninstall. I know for a fact I checked dependencies and they were Ok though so I'll check a bit more into it. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 26 October 2007 6:53 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 22:04 -0400, Allen wrote:

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As I said I launch YAST2, find the apps I want to uninstall, and then mark them for deletion, and then when I finish it says it's installing them instead and they still show up on the SUSE menu.

It might be a dependency.

One of the options shows you what it is finally going to install/unistall. You should also click the button "check dependencies".

If it fails, then use the comandline "rpm --erase --force ...rpm" - I think with those options, if not, 'man' is your friend. Trye first without force to see why it complains.

-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

Thanks man, I'll give it another shot. SUSE and Slackware are my two absolute fav distros so I'm not calling it quits over this, I love them both and use both and ONLY those. They do what I need and more. So if it fails again I'll give those commands a shot. I used to be the one helping others on here back when it was 9.0 and 10.0 and now I've been so busy I've started getting rusty with UNIX lol. Reason is, well, I got Married, and I'm moving back and forth between two countries right now, so it's taken some of my time away that I normally had to mess around on machines and I only have my laptop right now as my desktops are currently in another country so I had no way to set up another machine to test on. Anyway though, thank you very much, and I'll give it another go and see if it's a dependency thing. If so I'll check what needs it and if I don't need those apps I'll take them all out. when I added the repos I found them and added them into YAST2 and kept the ones that are there by default as I wanted the patches from OpenSUSE and just wanted to option of adding third party stuff from the others, so I added those in and added some new software to give it a shot, and that's pretty much how all this started up. Man this turned out to be longer than I intended, heh sorry. Anyway, thanks much and I'll give those a shot and make sure I save these emails so I can check the commands later on, we have to leave in a sec, going out for Breakfast. Have a good one, Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org