Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

All apps from my app manager are missing, all songs and videos are missing in the media player, "Unable to send and receive messages..."

so yeah, needing to delete them from X term

n00b, here. So be gentle

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

thats certainly an interesting way of thinking to solve your problem.

whatever or however you proceed - do one thing first: run backup app and backup :)

then no matter what other people may tell you and whatever you might try you can just reflash and restore and get back where you were.

if you do end up reflashing, you can get the effect you want by restoring all and just prior to the stage of re-installing the applications, disable the extras-devel repositories and then continue installing - it will reinstall all apps it can find at that time - so no extras-devel, no devel apps :)

i'm not certain how to identify currently installed applications from the command line tho, but it should be possible to find out.

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

start by disabling extras devel and extras testing to give you some space ;) - that will help, then pick the ones you dont want and uninstall!

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

Indeed if its already messed up the configuration, the chances of uninstalling fixing the problem is pretty slim. Not impossible if its something minor that was changed, but it sounds like a lot of different aspects of the OS are messed up, I can't imagine uninstalling a few applications fixing such a major problem.

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

Thanks you so much for responding :)
I have to reflash!!! No!!!
Anyway, what happens when you flash device? You lose all settings, all apps, all contacts, all calendar entries?
And if I backup my device, all of these things will return to normal?

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

My application manager is not working. I can't... :(

Thanks for the response though

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

So you are saying I have reflash?
Can you answer my questions about reflashing that I asked a couple of posts above?
Please :)

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

What happens exactly when you flash the device? When you back it up, the back up itself does not get removed when you flash it, right?
So I am able to restore right after I flash?

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

When you flash the firmware it overwrites the rootfs. This should leave all your user data and settings untouched - you'll need to reinstall applications but the configuration should persist.

If you reflash the eMMC then this will overwrite the user's home directory and the MyDocs directory as well. This will wipe out all user data and configuration settings.

The backup application can write to either the MyDocs directory or the SD card. If you write to the SD card then it will not get touched by any reflashing. If you write to the MyDocs directory then it will be untouched by a firmware flash, but will get wiped by an eMMC flash. It should backup the system configuration, contacts, conversations, a list of installed applications (allowing easy reinstall), and (if applications have installed a list of files to backup) application configuration.

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

1. Open terminal
2. write: df -h (to see if rootfs is full)
3. write: sudo gainroot
4. write: apt-get clean
5. write: apt-get autoremove
6. write: df -h (to see if the space is improved)

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

He must have installed something not optified so unistalling programs would probably solve it.

Re: Is there a way uninstall all extras-devel apps at once
 

Thanks for the posts
Ended up reflashing the thing, will keep your posts in my mind just in case I need help in the future
:)