Safe removal of pulseaudio
Brian Chadwick
brianchad at westnet.com.au
Thu Jan 17 01:29:32 UTC 2008
Karl Larsen wrote:
>
> My F8 had a lot of rpm's with libs and binary files that make up a
> working system. I find it to my advantage to remove these files. I
> used a method I thought was going to be automatic using "yum". I used
> "yum remove pulseaudio*" and I got a long list of things being
> deleted. I didn't pay much attention but discovered my entire system
> was killed!
>
> When I installed F8 and after getting it set up I put the F8 DVD
> back into the computer and looked at all the rpm's loaded and went to
> those with pulseaudio in the name. There were about 5 and it was
> simple to erase them if you picked the right ones first. I used no
> "rpm -e --nodep" and they all are gone. I then had a total "update"
> and I looked at /var/log/yum.log and see no more pulseaudio updates.
> This may have been because I erased the original ones.
>
> Karl
>
if you dont want to use pulseaudio regress to Fedora 7. its that simple
instead of trying to to do inexperienced surgery on F8
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