>Matt Sofen wrote, in reply to my gripe about MetroX:
It's Soffen *g*
>
>| 1) Uninstall MetroX.
>| 2) Install the Free X86 Xwindows server. They have more support
>| for video cards.
>
>Hrm... what the heck... I just used MetroX because RedHat gave me a
free
>license... what do you other Linux people use? As a GUI... using 100%
>command line, though is quicker if you happen to know the magic ords
> and
> >incantations, drives me crazy.
>
I couldn't get MetroX to work on 3 different machines so I uninstalled
it.
> >
> >| >Nah, I'll just keep on trying to teach myself the system... Saying
> that
> >it
> >| >is quite different than Win95 and Mac's would be quite an
> >understatement.
> >| >All I wanted to do was program with Perl and try to configure
> Apache...
> >;}
> >|
> >| Ummm.. If thats all you wanted, you could have used Perl and
> >| Apache for Win95 *g*
> >| Matt Soffen
> >
> >Yes, but I thought that I would have to re-learn Unix anyway, if I
> used the
> >Win95 versions, I would be "cheating" in some way, shape, or form.
> The Unix
> >police would come after me. ;}
>
Actually, no they wouldn't *g*. And to use Perl/Apache on a 95/NT box
is easy. The init file for Apache is the same as a UNIX box (only the
directories are X:\DDDDD\DDDD\etc.... instead of /dddd/dddd/etc...)
I found it to work quite well.
> >"Psst! Matt! -How- do I uninstall a program in Linux? How do I
> install X86?
> >Eh, I'll just look on X's domain..."
>
you would do:
rpm -q -a
That lists the packages that are installed.
Then run:
rpm -e metrox (or whatever the actual package name is)
Good Luck !!
Matt Soffen
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