How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

l want to delete native N9 applications such as youtube twitter and so on, other than flashing what other methods can l use.
Please help

Re: How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

Did you try to use the program manager?
Settings => programs => ...

Re: How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

tried but failed says "can't delete"

Re: How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

Well, actually this might be good, since you would not have a way to reinstall them again.
If you wait for PR1.2, you will get a folder system, sou you can hide the unwanted apps in a folder.
Alternatively you can gain root and move the desktop files of those apps into another system folder. This way the apps are still there but the icon will not be shown anymore.

Re: How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

Those apps are a part of the firmware and were not installed from .deb packaged files. This means that the application manager has no tool with which to uninstall them.

You can do the next best thing and hide them from the launcher screen by entering the following commands as root from your terminal:

cd /usr/share/applications
rm skype.desktop
rm youtube.desktop
rm twitter.desktop

....and so on.

Be aware that these icons will likely re-appear when/if you update your OS when PR 1.2 comes out, but you can just repeat the above commands to hid them again.

Re: How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

Better rename them to .bak instead deletion, since you will not be able to undo it!

Re: How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

It should be just

apt-get purge twitter

Try at your own risk.

To reinstall

apt-get install twitter


Do at your own risk though and don't mess around with this stuff unless you were are willing to re-flash your device. I had a dependency issue when installing locate (I had a thread on this somewhere) it just started removing everything from the command line. I lost the shop and quite a few other things. I was able to reinstall the shop from the command line, but still had to re-flash though as it had removed some essential things.

Re: How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

apt-get only works with applications that were installed as .deb packages. This may not apply to applications that are a part of the firmware.

Re: How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

I Just checked up on this and you are technically incorrect, but practically correct. You can delete with apt-get twitter, but it will remove other stuff that will wreck the system. interestingly when I deleted Skype, the shop and a few other things by accident once I was able to reinstall them and it worked perfectly, well until I rebooted I think a couple if days later. This was not unexpected though.

Anyway my suggestion clearly should be ignored.

Re: How to delete native apps in N9 using terminal
 

happened to me also.

wrecked my system while doing this and only way was flash again.