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How do I unistall .pets from command line?
Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2014, 12:29
by rpil
Let's saying, I've downloaded a program from a .pet file here, and I want to remove it. How can I do this in terminal? Puppy works with "apt-get" or with other command?
Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2014, 13:12
by Semme
Pup's NOT Debian based. It's pacman is all GUI.. One of its *few* shortcomings.
Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2014, 13:52
by rpil
So, how I uninstall a program which is not in the package manager?
Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2014, 14:08
by Semme
How did you install, from src? Alternately you can use Pfind to weed out most leftovers.
Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2014, 14:36
by cimarron
If it was installed from a .pet, then it should listed as installed in the package manager (in the lower right corner, usually). Clicking on that .pet in the list will then uninstall it.
Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2014, 15:12
by Semme
Yep, my oversight.
When dealing with *forum* pets, BEWARE. Packagers are not always thorough, nor experienced, and pets are not always compatible. Best to have the pets packager state the pup it was compiled on and for which pups the pkg is intended to encompass. Yet another reason the majority of members here run frugal installs.
Posted: Thu 13 Nov 2014, 06:17
by rpil
Thanks, guys.
Posted: Sun 16 Nov 2014, 19:13
by rerwin
rpil, Semme, cimarron,
Let's saying, I've downloaded a program from a .pet file here, and I want to remove it. How can I do this in terminal?
Although it does not appear to be documented, it is very simple to uninstall from the command line:
So, give petget the pet name but precede that with a hyphen.
Posted: Tue 18 Nov 2014, 01:33
by trapster
Well, who knew?!
How do I unistall .pets from command line?
Posted: Sun 23 Nov 2014, 09:43
by L18L
/usr/local/petget/README.txt wrote:'petget' is a commandline pkg install and uninstall script.
I have always interpreted the "hyphen" as "minus"
@rpil
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Posted: Sun 23 Nov 2014, 11:01
by Semme
Yeah, cli as long as you're in a graphical desktop. Try it from a pure terminal session..
It goes through the motions, but doesn't remove the pet. Not aboard 528 it doesn't.
Pseudo capability @ best.
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2014, 03:37
by Puppus Dogfellow
Semme wrote:Yeah, cli as long as you're in a graphical desktop. Try it from a pure terminal session..
It goes through the motions, but doesn't remove the pet. Not aboard 528 it doesn't.
Pseudo capability @ best.
it also appears to do diddly in precise 5.5 and precise 5.7.1/.2. well, it throws up some error messages, but i've yet to see it work with removal. haven't tried installation as it's just easier to click a pet and/or it's never occurred to me in time.