There is a button to remove addons in JHS jal. The option to do remove addons in Gtk Package manager is in the Tools menu.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Could there be an option added to pacman to look at the addon library and > other J libraries and make sure that the pacman install list is in sync with > the libraries. Also, how about a button to uninstall an addon? > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Mike Day <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks for Bill's comments just received but not copied here. >> However, I should have made clear that after my deletions >> and reinstall of gtkide described below, everything seems to >> be working ok, including both JHS & JGTK, so whatever I did >> seems to have been successful, and might be of use to others. >> >> M >> >> On 10/01/2011 10:28, Mike Day wrote: >> > FWIW, I had an experience similar to William Szuch's. >> > >> > I had successfully loaded the win32 version under Vista >> > with both jhs and jgtk working ok - but I was trying to >> > solve my own problems with the user folder not being >> > where I wanted it, and decided to reinstall j701. I didn't >> > want to lose all the addons as it's time-consuming to >> > download them, so I deleted the contents of most J >> > folders (bin, system, etc), but not those under addons. >> > >> > After reinstalling J701, I encountered the same >> > behaviour as reported by William Szuch, ie an invitation >> > to >> > "install 'gtkide' " >> > which I did. This resulted in a lengthy sequence of >> > download and expansion messages. >> > I then complied with the request to >> > "load 'gtkide' " >> > which did not succeed. >> > >> > I tried another "install 'gtkide' " which I think yielded >> > the message that it was already installed. >> > >> > After a bit of thought, I deleted only those folders under >> > addons which appeared to have contents related to gtk. >> > I also deleted gtk stuff elsewhere under j701, ie under >> > "install". This time, "install 'gtkide' " followed by >> > "load 'gtkide' " was successful. I think I might have needed >> > to reload one or two addons using pacman, but >> > certainly not all. >> > >> > I dont recall any difficulty with readonly files or folders. >> > >> > This is roughly what happened. I'm afraid I didn't >> > exactly record everything that occurred as I was just >> > trying to deal with my own problems at the time. >> > >> > It looks as if a facility to uninstall all or part of J would >> > be useful. Easier said than done! >> > >> > Mike >> > >> > On 10/01/2011 04:35, Fraser Jackson wrote: >> >> After the user install failed, I tried to delete a previous installation >> in >> >> the user directory. It would not let me remove the folders to the >> recycle >> >> bin. I am not sure what caused this. >> >> >> >> I think Bill's suggestion of not being able to write to ~addons is >> correct >> >> because none of the output folloing the install 'gtkide' appeared in the >> >> console, nor any messages. >> >> >> >> I have since erased the folders and a clean user install into new >> >> directories worked OK >> >> >> >> Fraser >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
