1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I have a laptop running Fedora Core 2, and I am trying to wipe it to put on Windows. Even though the CD is listed first in the boot order, it will not boot to the Solaris system disk. How else could I format this laptop? -skeet (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I still don't know if there's a standard way to do this. I'm hoping there's a *more or less* standard way to do this across linux platforms but the platform in question is Gentoo. Let's say I download a source tarball as tar.gz and I do the typical gunzip app_to_install.tar.gz tar xvf... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have some problems with mysql, and maybe perl installation faults. I have installed perl by source. I followed default configuration (e.g. ./configure, make, make install). I have installed perl just because it was required for mysql's installation. But now I have some problems. If I will... (8 Replies)

4. Debian

How can I uninstall a program the most efficient way? So that I get rid of all the man pages etc. too? I'm running debian. /Richard (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Everyone, I want to uninstall mysql-standard-5.0.15-linux-i686.tar. The problem is i don't no how to uninstall tar file. I know how to uninstall it through rpm but we have a binary file. can we use make uninstall or remove comand to do so? Or there is some other way of unistalling tar files.... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I'm writing an uninstaller for a bespoke piece of software that we deploy to our Linux terminals. One of the packages we install is the JDK (Java Development Kit). Now over the years we have quite a number of different versions installed with different package names. In my uninstaller... (0 Replies)

7. Cybersecurity

Hi Can anyone point me to any documentation or can provide instructions on uninstalling OpenSSH (4.7p1) on Tru64 UNIX 5.1a? Thanks (0 Replies)

8. Linux

Hi, I have a installed a package(some X) on my linux machine. But now I want to unistall it but some of the file required for unistalltion are missing. Can someone tell me how to remove that rpm (package) from my machine. I am trying Install it again. But for it, i need to uninstall it... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone, I'm new-ish to Unix outside of being a basic user in the past. So some background on my experience level when asking this question. My current laptop, running OS X 10.5, had Apache and PHP installed when I bought it. However I need to recompile these now to add features which... (0 Replies)