I doan wahnt no stinkin' HE-LIX ann I doan wahnt no stinkin' TOE-TEM!!

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Ric Moore wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 11:32 +0100, Paul wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 04:32 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> How do I purge those little demon spawn from my machine and rid myself
>>> of all reference to them in mozilla, firefox and Everything? I want them
>>> gone, real simple... no ambiguity there, just removed completely and all
>>> dependencies to either resolved to mplayer. It's late, like 3:30 AM and
>>> firefox is back to not doing windows media and rm files. Even file
>>> mangler can't remove them with dependency issues.
>>
>> Without the ability to run (or at least like xmms be able to use plugin
>> modules), both Helix and Totem aren't of much use IMO. Much better off
>> going to freshrpms and grabbing Xine with the moz-plugin IMO.
>
> There's a plan! Now how do I rid firefox and mozilla, etc. of the
> offenders, totem and helix? rpm -e everything remotely related?

Why not?  It looks like totem, rhythmbox, and helix are all you need to 
nuke.

>
> I bet there is some obscure file ready to erupt and infect afresh
> install, tell me there isn't. <grins>
>
> I just did rm -rf /usr/lib/totem and /usr/lib/helix and every file I
> could 'locate' that looked like it might be one of these two, and
> firefox still wants to use them and not drop out to ask what it wants to
> be done with the file.

Then there probably is some obscure file someplace that you missed (and 
possibly some obscure file someplace that you deleted that shouldn't have 
been).  RPM will remove the right ones and leave the wrong ones.

Also, Firefox probably has recorded a preference someplace and doesn't 
think it needs to ask.  Check your ~/.mozilla directory

Nuking random files in a system with a package manager is usually 
considered harmful.

>
> That's different. I thought default behavior was to ASK! <grumbles> I
> just want my machine back, is all. For ME to tell it what to do... not
> for someone in Pahrump Nevada to dictate. Or the unmentionable Raleigh
> NC gang, who's name cannot be pronounced one this list, so we say "Nee!"
> I shall henceforth refer to their product as "Shrubbery". See if I
> don't.

Sorry, you lost me...

>
>
> Damn, Ric
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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