Removing apps in Fedora

General Computing *nix and other operating systems
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Been running bittorrent on my fedora box… last time i launched it it said there was an updated version, so i downloaded it and ran the rpm.

Now nothing happens when i double click a torrent link, if i choose the app manually (its still listed) nothing happens…

So its broke i think… so i want to get rid of it and start again, but how the hell do you do that, the app isn’t even listed on the menu, its not in the “add/remove” part of fedora…

Question is, how do i remove it or is it obvous what is wrong to you linux types ?

Side note, this is one part of linux i really think sucks, new apps install where ever they want and when they do they don’t add start menu options (sorry for the windows speak) and they don’t have an add/remove entry added afaik.

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rpm -e <packagename> e=erase

from the sounds of that behaviour you did an rpm -i (install) with the new version rather than a rpm -u (upgrade).

:xfinger:

DT.

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Or

yum remove <packagename>

will work too :slight_smile:

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I should get some sort of bravery award :lol: I read up on Yum and got it working and then did a full update.

Wadaya know, it all works fine now… will now look at getting the graphical version up and running too over christmas :thumbsup:

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ah, there’s me showing my old skool knowledge again :lol: I really should upgrade everything about my ltsp box, but great believer in it works… :wink:

Still- it is planned for the holidays to spend a day with Ubuntu and getting a ltsp rig going and then having another look at helping Peige get D2OL running on ltsp :smiley:

DT.

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Yumex only takes five minutes to install ( yum install yumex ) , not as comprehensive as YaST on SuSE but much easier to use , saves a lot of time and head scratching .:nod:

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I did try and get yumex running before but it was moaning that this that and the other wasn’t installed already but who knows, maybe now i have an “updated” system it might take.

DT, if you sus out ltsp/d2ol i will definatly be the man who runs it, i like d2ol as a project but i really want to have all of my machines on one project which means that i want to run d2ol on the ltsp setup which i can’t atm.

I’m the first to admit that i havn’t got real linux skill, if it wasn’t for TPR i wouldn’t have even got involved with penguins :lol: but i’m good at following instructions and filling in blanks so if you can get it going i’m pritty sure i can duplicate it :thumbsup:

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I have been so slack in my finishing of the Ubuntu distributon stuff for D2OL and LTSP usage. I do have 4 nodes running it but I start them still by hand, I am so slack.

DT you will find the local apps stuff very lacking in Ubuntu.

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cheers Major - fill me with confidence :lol: :wink:

DT.

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Erm, you two go on ahead… i’ll be right behind :lol:

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Why bother with Ubuntu when K12 is still there :confused:. I installed the latest (Fedora Core 4) version and it’s sweet, even has later Kernel revision 2.6.x if you change a few links about.

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I initially had the impression that it was more capable of running ltsp d2ol out of the box… havn’t said, by maojc’s comments i’m not so sure now :confused:

Seemed to me that d2ol has java problems with fedora. Plus it needed some sort of ramdisk thing to be running otherwise it will kill the server with trafic ?

I

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Well one thing that the Ubuntu release has done is make the DHCP piece completely seamless for PXE clients, I did absolutely nothing to get Nforce Motherboard based PXE to work. It also comes with 2.6.12 kernel out of the box.

What is a bit flakey, is the local app support and the boot script sequence which seems to be based on Debian stuff, which makes sense. A couple hours of work should straighten that out though and I have not looked for any patches for it yet. (update seems there is none, but there is another version much the same as K-12 called eduUbuntu)

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here is a taste

yeah Yeah Yeah the dates and times are all over the place! Guess what, I DON’T CARE, it crunches!

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Well after much playing and messing I’ve gone with what I know :lol:

All that “done for you” removes all the fun - one FC4-64bit install completed and I’ll do it manually - I just couldn’t find what I wanted out of the pre-builds. K12 = no 64bit kernel, or at least not one I saw on the downloads page. Overclockix - looks damn pretty, LTSP2.1 by default, runs Folding under wine which apparently is quicker - but the HD install being in beta really shows. Shame really as it’s based on Knoppix and graphically and user front end I really liked it, but nothing I can’t do myself with FC4.

So, my new run at ltsp is on Sempron2800 64bit with a cpu fan that keeps stopping :lol: 80Gb 7200rpm drive (the old server runs on 5400rpm 60Gb) - and a new addition - a zip100 drive for keeping copies of those all important configuration files and work directories.

LTSP from scratch - I like a challenge :smiley:

DT.

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That is how I did my first one ! :thumbsup: