Rowan,
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
It makes it sound as if I can't be bothered to read the help notes
before taking up people's time, which is not the case. I was just tired.
I have read the help notes now, and it seems that solid colour in the
icon boxes means a package is broken, and that
Firefox is a metapackage - whatever the exact description of that
entails I know not. I just think of metapackages as boxes with other
'stuff' in - not very technical but it get's me by :) - similarly
ubuntu-desktop (and kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop) are metapackages.
Firefox-3.0 is actually
And because I forgot - while complete
removal will remove the configuration files as well it doesn;t to my
knowledge deal with any personal configs in your home directory
Kev
Kev wrote:
Firefox is a metapackage - whatever the exact description of that
entails I know not. I just think of
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Kev ubu...@talktalk.net wrote:
And because I forgot - while complete
removal will remove the configuration files as well it doesn;t to my
knowledge deal with any personal configs in your home directory
I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory,
Sean Miller wrote:
I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they?
If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an rm
-rf .mozilla or whatever the directory is... next time Firefox starts
it can re-configure itself back to default.
AFAIK, your whole
That sounds so straightforward, even I couldn't mess it up :-)
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +, mac wrote:
Sean Miller wrote:
I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they?
If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an rm
-rf .mozilla or
I was talking more generally - not mozilla specific
Kev
Sean Miller wrote:
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Kev ubu...@talktalk.net wrote:
And because I forgot - while complete
removal will remove the configuration files as well it doesn;t to my
knowledge deal with any personal configs in
I don't seem to have a /home/$USER/ folder. There's nothing in /home/
except /Rowan/, and nothing in /Rowan/ except /examples/.
I did see a folder called /Lost Found/ but it disappeared when I tried
to open it, after telling me I didn't have permission to do so.
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24
no, I had to tick show hidden files first, I see it now.'
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +, mac wrote:
Sean Miller wrote:
I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they?
If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an rm
-rf .mozilla or whatever
Your $USER folder IS /Rowan - $USER is a term for 'your username here'.
.mozilla is a hidden folder ( as is any folder beginning in a . ), so
open up /home/Rowan and press ctrl + H, I think, to show all hidden
folders. Press this key combo again to hide them.
Simon Wears
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There's 32 items in that default folder,four of which are folders. I
need to identify the specific ones I can and should remove, eventually.
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +, mac wrote:
Sean Miller wrote:
I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they?
If so, then it
You may recall I said yesterday:
I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube
videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two
plug-ins one after another, neither of which helped at all One of them
can be disabled (though not uninstalled),via Firefox
Just uninstall and reinstall Firefox itself, from Synaptic... then
when you have it re-installed don't add that particular plug-in to it!
Sean
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Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a
typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he
just uninstalls and re-installs en bloc every time he has detailed
issues...)
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 07:11 +, Sean Miller wrote:
Just uninstall and
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Rowan Berkeley
rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a
typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he
just uninstalls and re-installs en bloc every time he has detailed
In fact I think I have managed to locate the gnash 0.8.4 and swfdec
0.8.0 packages in synaptic and remove them after all, so I won't have to
re-install the whole of firefox. They have their own little
dependencies, which are still in there but non-removable, so maybe I
should have used the
2009/3/14 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
In fact I think I have managed to locate the gnash 0.8.4 and swfdec
0.8.0 packages in synaptic and remove them after all, so I won't have to
re-install the whole of firefox.
Re-installing applications actually rarely fixes anything. There
oh, quite so, Al, but I am merely trying to remove the things I myself
added yesterday - not items that were on the LiveCD, or that came with
the automatic updates that I received when I went online after running
the LiveCD and installing ubuntu 8.10 from it. In fact, I chose these
two add-ons,
On 14 Mar 2009 at 7:23, Sean Miller wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Rowan Berkeley
rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a
typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he
just uninstalls
I find the Synaptic package manager a bit confusing. Maybe this is
explained in the help notes, but, in general, there are certain items
marked with a solid orange square and others not, and they're all
independently tickable, then there is the choice between 'remove' and
'complete remove'. Is
Perhaps it was a little tactless of me to say this:
I find the Synaptic package manager a bit confusing. Maybe this is
explained in the help notes, but, in general, there are certain items
marked with a solid orange square and others not, and they're all
independently tickable, then there is the
Ubuntu 8.10 now up and running apparently normally.
Thank you, Michael Fletcher!
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On 13/03/2009 12:54, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Ubuntu 8.10 now up and running apparently normally.
Thank you, Michael Fletcher!
That's good. So everything is working out of the box?
Rob
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I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube
videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two
plug-ins one after another, neither of whiuch helped at all One of them
can be disabled (though not uninstalled),via Firefox Tools Add-ons,
namely Gnash
On 13/03/2009 18:02, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube
videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two
plug-ins one after another, neither of whiuch helped at all One of them
can be disabled (though not
I already tried both and SWFdec doesn't even appear under Synaptic,
which is what I meant when I said it had disappeared into the innards of
the firefox configuration. Evidently, just like Alan said, I shall need
some code, to find it from the terminal.
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:34 +, Rob
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